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openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2: upx Moderate Heap Overflow CVE-2020-24119

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important patch for openSUSE resolves a significant memory corruption vulnerability in upx, boosting overall system security.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for upx fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-24119: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in p=5Flx=5Felf.cpp

(boo#1186238)

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.2:Update update proje=

ct.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended instal=

lation methods

like YaST online=5Fupdate or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-826=3D1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86=5F64):

upx-3.96-bp152.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24119.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186238

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0826-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= =5F=5F=5F

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