CVE-2015-7696: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 7.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted password-protected ZIP archive, possibly related to an Extra-Field size value.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Unzip Project Unzip: version 6.0 only

Published 2015-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.