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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()

Published Oct 6, 2017

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().

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

References (1)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 6, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Oct 6, 2017
Link CVE-2017-15056
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-15056
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2017-15056