CVE-2015-9261

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-9261

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-9261.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.27.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.27.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.27.2-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.27.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.27.2-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.