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Fedora 34 Update: 2021-737766a313 Critical Patch for UPX Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Emergency update issued for upx on Fedora 34 tackling heap overflow vulnerability to enhance system security.
Patch for CVE-2020-24119.

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.

Patch for CVE-2020-24119.

* Tue May 18 2021 Gwyn Ciesla - 3.96-9

- Patch for CVE-2020-24119

[ 1 ] Bug #1961592 - CVE-2020-24119 upx: heap buffer overflow in p_lx_elf.cpp [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961592

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-737766a313' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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Product: Fedora 34
Version: 3.96
Release: 9.fc34
Summary: Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

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