Bug 1794719 (CVE-2019-20051)

Summary:	CVE-2019-20051 upx: floating point exception in PackLinuxElf::elf_hash in p_lx_elf.cpp
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gwync
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Bug Depends On:	1794720, 1794721, 1794722
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-01-24 13:10:58 UTC

A floating-point exception was discovered in PackLinuxElf::elf_hash in p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 3.95. The vulnerability causes an application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Reference:
https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/313

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-01-24 13:11:17 UTC

Created upx tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1794720]
Affects: epel-8 [bug 1794722]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1794721]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-01-24 14:09:30 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.