CVE-2020-27790

medium

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/issues/331

https://github.com/upx/upx/commit/eb90eab6325d009004ffb155e3e33f22d4d3ca26

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-08-18

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00019