Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package upx-ucl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-UPXUCL-1562160
  • published13 Mar 2021
  • disclosed26 Mar 2021

Introduced: 13 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-20285  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:12.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream upx-ucl package and not the upx-ucl package as distributed by Debian.

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.