Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package upx-ucl  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2004-UPXUCL-658444
  • published17 Nov 2017
  • disclosed17 Nov 2017

Introduced: 17 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16869  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

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 Ubuntu.

p_mach.cpp in UPX 3.94 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mach-O file, related to canPack and unpack functions. NOTE: the vendor has stated "there is no security implication whatsoever.