PT-2019-13593 · Upx Team+2 · Upx+2

Aheroine · Published 2019-07-27 · Updated 2025-04-11 · CVE-2019-14296

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions UPX version 3.95

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, which may result in a SEGV or buffer overflow, and application crash, via a crafted UPX packed file. The canUnpack function in p vmlinx.cpp is affected.

Recommendations For UPX version 3.95, consider avoiding the use of the canUnpack function in p vmlinx.cpp until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the handling of crafted UPX packed files to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-2910

ALT-PU-2020-2930

CVE-2019-14296

MGASA-2020-0012

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0163-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0180-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_0163-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11486-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Upx

References · 35

• 🔥 https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/287 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-14296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:0163-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14296 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00007.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/MOCJ43HTM45GZCAQ2FLEBDNBM76V22RG · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MOCJ43HTM45GZCAQ2FLEBDNBM76V22RG · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0012.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2020-0012 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14296 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14296 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14296 · Vendor Advisory