CVE-2015-9261: Busybox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

huft_build in archival/libarchive/decompress_gunzip.c in BusyBox before 1.27.2 misuses a pointer, causing segfaults and an application crash during an unzip operation on a specially crafted ZIP file.

Affected products

• Busybox Busybox: before 1.27.2 (fixed in 1.27.2)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2018-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.