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An upx security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: upx-3.96-9.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-ceb9db8de0
2021-05-27 01:04:21.978199
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Name : upx
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 3.96
Release : 9.fc33
URL :   http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Description :
UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable
packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an
excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your
executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks.

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Update Information:

Patch for CVE-2020-24119.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 18 2021 Gwyn Ciesla - 3.96-9
- Patch for CVE-2020-24119
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1961592 - CVE-2020-24119 upx: heap buffer overflow in p_lx_elf.cpp [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961592
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-ceb9db8de0' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys