Medium
Security advisory
An floating point exception was discovered in the elf_lookup function in p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27802
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An floating point exception was discovered in the elf_lookup function in p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 4.0.0 via a crafted Mach-O file.
osv:CVE-2020-27802
Complete source record
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