Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in UPX 3.94

CVE-2017-15056 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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().

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