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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-ea4b8a246f Critical: UPX 4.2.3 Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 39 enhancements to upx 4.2.3 tackle security vulnerabilities. Discover the effects and guidelines for installation.
4.2.3

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.

Update Information:

4.2.3

Change Log

* Thu Mar 28 2024 Gwyn Ciesla - 4.2.3-1 - 4.2.3 * Sat Jan 27 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 4.2.2-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2272102 - upx-4.2.3 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272102 [ 2 ] Bug #2272828 - CVE-2024-3209 upx: heap-based buffer overflow via get_ne64() [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272828

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-fb0dbe3373' 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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Name: upx
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 4.2.3
Release: 1.fc39
Summary: Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

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