CVE-2021-20285
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-26 16:35
Modified
2024-08-03 17:37
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in upx canPack in p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 3.96. This flaw allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV or buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impacts via a crafted ELF. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1937787Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/upx/upx/issues/421Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1937787Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/421Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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