Bug#1031874: upx-ucl: CVE-2023-23457

From	Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject	Bug#1031874: upx-ucl: CVE-2023-23457
Date	2023-10-09 17:30 +0200
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* Moritz Mühlenhoff [Fri Feb 24, 2023 at 05:04:53PM +0100]:

> The following vulnerability was published for upx-ucl.
> 
> CVE-2023-23457[0]:
> | A Segmentation fault was found in UPX in
> | PackLinuxElf64::invert_pt_dynamic() in p_lx_elf.cpp. An attacker with
> | a crafted input file allows invalid memory address access that could
> | lead to a denial of service.
> 
> https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/631
> https://github.com/upx/upx/commit/779b648c5f6aa9b33f4728f79dd4d0efec0bf860
[...]

There are patches available for this and also for #1033258 since
several months, also upstream released multiple versions since 3.96
(latest being v4.1.0 as of 2023-08-08).

Is there any reason why this wasn't yet taken care of?
Is the package maintainer still around?

regards
-mika-

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