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CVE-2015-1315 (GCVE-0-2015-1315)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-23 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:40
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the charset_to_intern function in unix/unix.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.10b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string, as demonstrated by converting a string from CP866 to UTF-8.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-04-04 00:00
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