FKIE_CVE-2020-27790

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-08-18 19:15 - Updated: 2025-04-11 12:27
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A floating point exception issue was discovered in UPX in PackLinuxElf64::invert_pt_dynamic() function of p_lx_elf.cpp file. An attacker with a crafted input file could trigger this issue that could cause a crash leading to a denial of service. The highest impact is to Availability.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/upx/upx/commit/eb90eab6325d009004ffb155e3e33f22d4d3ca26Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/upx/upx/issues/331Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/upx/upx/commit/eb90eab6325d009004ffb155e3e33f22d4d3ca26Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/331Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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