Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
9.8
EPSS
0.04%
Buffer Overflow
AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

A vulnerability was found in UPX up to 4.2.2. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function getne64 of the file bele.h. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-259055. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
EPSS
0.01%
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in UPX up to 5.0.0. Affected is the function PackLinuxElf64::unDTINIT of the file src/plxelf.cpp. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is identified as e0b6ff192412f5bb5364c1948f4f6b27a0cd5ea2. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A Segmentation fault was found in UPX in invertptdynamic() function in plxelf.cpp. An attacker with a crafted input file allows invalid memory address access that could lead to a denial of service.

https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/631 https://github.com/upx/upx/commit/779b648c5f6aa9b33f4728f79dd4d0efec0bf860

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in upx, during the generic pointer 'p' points to an inaccessible address in func getle32(). The problem is essentially caused in PackLinuxElf32::elflookup() at plxelf.cpp:5382.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in upx, during the variable 'bucket' points to an inaccessible address. The issue is being triggered in the function PackLinuxElf64::invertptdynamic at plxelf.cpp:5239.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in upx, during the variable 'bucket' points to an inaccessible address. The issue is being triggered in the function PackLinuxElf32::invertptdynamic at plxelf.cpp:1688.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A heap-based buffer overflows was discovered in upx, during the generic pointer 'p' points to an inaccessible address in func getle32(). The problem is essentially caused in PackLinuxElf32::elflookup() at plxelf.cpp:5368

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A heap-based buffer overflows was discovered in upx, during the generic pointer 'p' points to an inaccessible address in func getle32(). The problem is essentially caused in PackLinuxElf32::elflookup() at plxelf.cpp:5349

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in upx, during the generic pointer 'p' points to an inaccessible address in func getle64().

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A heap-based buffer overflows was discovered in upx, during the generic pointer 'p' points to an inaccessible address in func getle32(). The problem is essentially caused in PackLinuxElf64::elflookup() at plxelf.cpp:5404

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reachable Assertion vulnerability in upx before 4.0.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted file passed to the the readx function.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

plxelf.cpp in UPX before 3.96 has an integer overflow during unpacking via crafted values in a PTDYNAMIC segment.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A floating-point exception was discovered in PackLinuxElf::elfhash in plxelf.cpp in UPX 3.95. The vulnerability causes an application crash, which leads to denial of service.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the canUnpack function in pmach.cpp in UPX 3.95 via a crafted Mach-O file.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in canUnpack in pmach.cpp in UPX 3.95 via a crafted Mach-O file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

canUnpack in pvmlinx.cpp in UPX 3.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV or buffer overflow, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UPX packed file.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An Integer overflow in the getElfSections function in pvmlinx.cpp in UPX 3.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a skewed offset larger than the size of the PE section in a UPX packed executable, which triggers an allocation of excessive memory.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the getle32 function in bele.h in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An invalid memory address reference was discovered in the elflookup function in plxelf.cpp in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the accuagetbe32 function in miniacc.h in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An invalid memory address reference was discovered in the adjABS function in plxelf.cpp in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Divide by Zero
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A floating point exception issue was discovered in UPX in PackLinuxElf64::invertptdynamic() function of plxelf.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.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An out-of-bounds read access vulnerability was discovered in UPX in PackLinuxElf64::canPack() function of plxelf.cpp file. An attacker with a crafted input file could trigger this issue that could cause a crash leading to a denial of service.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A Segmentaation fault was found in UPX in invertptdynamic() function in plxelf.cpp. An attacker with a crafted input file allows invalid memory address access that could lead to a denial of service.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the invertptdynamic function in plxelf.cpp in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the getle64 function in bele.h in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Divide by Zero, Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An floating point exception was discovered in the elflookup function in plxelf.cpp in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

A heap buffer overflow read was discovered in upx 4.0.0, because the check in plxelf.cpp is not perfect.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Null pointer dereference was found in upx PackLinuxElf::canUnpack() in plxelf.cpp,in version UPX 4.0.0. That allow attackers to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/48

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/upx/upx/commit/90279abdfcd235172eab99651043051188938dcc

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )

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