Advisories » 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

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21876
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/RJRF5BAMX5AS2PZ2P56VA2XW6ZXF7VOV/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15056

SRPMS

6/core

• upx-3.94-1.mga6

5/core

• upx-3.94-1.mga5