Advisories ยป MGASA-2017-0389

Updated upx package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 27 Oct 2017
Modification date: 27 Oct 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-15056

Description

p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 3.94 mishandles ELF headers, which allows remote attackers
to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified
other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by an Invalid Pointer
Read in PackLinuxElf64::unpack() (CVE-2017-15056).
                

References

SRPMS

5/core

6/core