canUnpack in p_vmlinx.cpp in UPX 3.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV or buffer overflow, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UPX packed file.

This update for upx to version 3.96 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2019-1010048: Fixed a denial of service in     PackLinuxElf32::PackLinuxElf32help1() (boo#1141777).

  - CVE-2019-14296: Fixed a denial of service in canUnpack()     (boo#1143839).

  - CVE-2019-20021: Fixed a heap-based buffer over-read in     canUnpack() (boo#1159833).

  - CVE-2019-20053: Fixed a denial of service in canUnpack()     (boo#1159920).

  - CVE-2018-11243: Fixed a denial of service in     PackLinuxElf64::unpack() (boo#1094138).

  - Update to version 3.96

  - Bug fixes: [CVE-2019-1010048, boo#1141777]     [CVE-2019-14296, boo#1143839] [CVE-2019-20021,     boo#1159833] [CVE-2019-20053, boo#1159920]     [CVE-2018-11243 partially - ticket 206 ONLY,     boo#1094138]

  - Update to version 3.95

  - Flag --force-pie when ET_DYN main program is not marked     as DF_1_PIE

  - Better compatibility with varying layout of address     space on Linux

  - Support for 4 PT_LOAD layout in ELF generated by     binutils-2.31

  - bug fixes, particularly better diagnosis of malformed     input

  - bug fixes - see https://github.com/upx/upx/milestone/4

Patches for CVE-2019-14295, CVE-2019-14296

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
133490	openSUSE Security Update : upx (openSUSE-2020-163)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
127526	Fedora 29 : upx (2019-bf4633142b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
127520	Fedora 30 : upx (2019-9a0f02c8c8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2019-14296

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Tenable Plugins

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