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CVE-2021-43311 (GCVE-0-2021-43311)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-24 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-25 15:17
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Summary
A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in upx, during the generic pointer 'p' points to an inaccessible address in func get_le32(). The problem is essentially caused in PackLinuxElf32::elf_lookup() at p_lx_elf.cpp:5382.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-25 15:17 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a upx Affected: upx before 4.0.0-git-c6b9e3c62d15
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