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Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-ab6345ef72 Major: Mem Overflow Issue Detected

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update for upx on Fedora 40 resolves a serious buffer overflow vulnerability. Ensure your system is secure by installing this update promptly.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical Fedora security fix upx

Change Log

* Thu Mar 28 2024 Gwyn Ciesla - 4.2.3-1 - 4.2.3

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-df5322cd61' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: upx
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 4.2.3
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://github.com/upx/upx
Summary: Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical Fedora security fix upx

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