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ubuntu-cve-2023-23456

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2023-01-12 19:15

Modified

2026-05-20 15:02

Summary

Details

A heap-based buffer overflow issue was discovered in UPX in PackTmt::pack() in p_tmt.cpp file. The flow allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (abort) via a crafted file.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-23456	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160381	REPORT
	https://github.com/upx/upx/commit/510505a85cbe45e…	REPORT
	https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/632	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-23456	REPORT

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CVE-2023-23456 (GCVE-0-2023-23456)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-12 00:00 – Updated: 2024-12-11 19:02

Title

Upx: heap-buffer-overflow in packtmt::pack()

Summary

A heap-based buffer overflow issue was discovered in UPX in PackTmt::pack() in p_tmt.cpp file. The flow allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (abort) via a crafted file.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

fedora

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160381
https://github.com/upx/upx/commit/510505a85cbe45e…
https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/632
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
		Unaffected: 4.0.2 , < * (semver)

Date Public

2022-11-24 00:00

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Chenweijia for reporting this issue.

Show details on NVD website

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2023-23456 (GCVE-0-2023-23456)

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