Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting upx/upx package, versions [,3.96)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.5% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UPXUPX-2335015
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-14295  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade upx/upx to version 3.96 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. An Integer overflow in the getElfSections function in p_vmlinx.cpp in UPX 3.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a skewed offset larger than the size of the PE section in a UPX packed executable, which triggers an allocation of excessive memory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1