Upx
CVE-2017-16869
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, buffer size validation
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.26%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
p_mach.cpp in UPX 3.94 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mach-O file, related. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Use memory-safe languages or bounds-checking. Enable ASLR, DEP/NX, stack canaries. Use safe string functions.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Overflow (CWE-119), which allows attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. p_mach.cpp in UPX 3.94 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mach-O file, related to canPack and unpack functions. NOTE: the vendor has stated "there is no security implication whatsoever. Affected products include: Upx.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
p_mach.cpp in UPX 3.94 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mach-O file, related to canPack and unpack functions. NOTE: the vendor has stated "there is no security implication whatsoever.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
A vulnerability was found in UPX up to 4.2.2. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploit
Null pointer dereference was found in upx PackLinuxElf::canUnpack() in p_lx_elf.cpp,in version UPX 4.0.0. Rated high sev
canUnpack in p_vmlinx.cpp in UPX 3.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV or buffer overflow, and
PackLinuxElf64::unpack in p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 3.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (double free), l
A flaw was found in upx canPack in p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 3.96. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.6), this vulnerability is no
A Segmentation fault was found in UPX in PackLinuxElf64::invert_pt_dynamic() in p_lx_elf.cpp. Rated medium severity (CVS
A heap-based buffer overflow issue was discovered in UPX in PackTmt::pack() in p_tmt.cpp file. Rated medium severity (CV
An assertion abort was found in upx MemBuffer::alloc() in mem.cpp, in version UPX 4.0.0. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5
An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the canUnpack function in p_mach.cpp in UPX 3.95 via a crafted M
A floating-point exception was discovered in PackLinuxElf::elf_hash in p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 3.95. Rated medium severity (
A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in canUnpack in p_mach.cpp in UPX 3.95 via a crafted Mach-O file. Rated med
An Integer overflow in the getElfSections function in p_vmlinx.cpp in UPX 3.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
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