CVE-2021-46179 — Reachable Assertion in UPX

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion4 documents4 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 72.31%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
UPXDebian Upx-ucl
Timeline
PublishedAug 22

Description

Reachable Assertion vulnerability in upx before 4.0.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted file passed to the the readx function.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDupx/upx< 4.0.0
▶debiandebian/upx-ucl< upx-ucl 4.2.2-1 (forky)

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2021-46179: Reachable Assertion vulnerability in upx before 4↗2023-08-22
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GHSA
GHSA-8vp9-52j5-ghqw: Reachable Assertion vulnerability in upx before 4↗2023-08-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2021-46179: upx-ucl - Reachable Assertion vulnerability in upx before 4.0.0 allows attackers to cause ...↗2021
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