Vulnerability CVE-2020-27790


Published: 2022-08-18

Description:
A floating point exception issue was discovered in UPX in PackLinuxElf64::invert_pt_dynamic() function of p_lx_elf.cpp file. An attacker with a crafted input file could trigger this issue that could cause a crash leading to a denial of service. The highest impact is to Availability.

 References:
https://github.com/upx/upx/commit/eb90eab6325d009004ffb155e3e33f22d4d3ca26
https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/331

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