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Fedora: 27-2017-89e2655938 Critical: upx ELF Header Patch

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Stay informed on the important Fedora release concerning upx 3.94 which tackles CVE-2017-15056, thereby bolstering system security.
3.94 and patch for CVE-2017-15056

Summary

UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable

packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an

excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your

executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks.

3.94 and patch for CVE-2017-15056

[ 1 ] Bug #1500428 - CVE-2017-15056 upx: Mishandling of ELF headers [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500428

su -c 'dnf upgrade upx' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 3.94
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

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