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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27788

An out-of-bounds read access vulnerability was discovered in UPX in PackLinuxElf64::canPack() function of p_lx_elf.cpp file. An attacker with a crafte...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An out-of-bounds read access vulnerability was discovered in UPX in PackLinuxElf64::canPack() function of p_lx_elf.cpp file. An attacker with a crafted input file could trigger this issue that could cause a crash leading to a denial of service.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:13 upx-ucl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.96-1"}]}]

Debian:14 upx-ucl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.96-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org