CVE-2017-15056

HIGH

UPX 3.94 - Denial of Service via Crafted ELF Binary

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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().

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/128

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0096
EPSS Percentile 57.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (1)
upx/upx 3.94
Published Oct 06, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026