CVE-2023-23457 (GCVE-0-2023-23457)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-12 00:00
Modified
2025-04-07 15:31
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Summary
A Segmentation fault was found in UPX in PackLinuxElf64::invert_pt_dynamic() in p_lx_elf.cpp. An attacker with a crafted input file allows invalid memory address access that could lead to a denial of service.
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