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CVE-2020-27800 (GCVE-0-2020-27800)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-25 19:37 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:25
VLAI
Summary
A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the get_le32 function in bele.h in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/395 x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a upx Affected: upx 4.0.0-git-87b73e5cfdc1+
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