vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-27801: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Aug 25, 2022

Added

Aug 22, 2024

Modified

Jun 18, 2026

Description

A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the get_le64 function in bele.h in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.

alpine-linux-upgrade-upx

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