CVE-2021-43317 (GCVE-0-2021-43317)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-24 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-25 15:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A heap-based buffer overflows was discovered in upx, during the generic pointer 'p' points to an inaccessible address in func get_le32(). The problem is essentially caused in PackLinuxElf64::elf_lookup() at p_lx_elf.cpp:5404
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-25 15:05 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
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