Vulnerability CVE-2021-4217
Published: 2022-08-24

Description:
A flaw was found in unzip. The vulnerability occurs due to improper handling of Unicode strings, which can lead to a null pointer dereference. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a crash or code execution.

 References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/+bug/1957077
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044583
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4217
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