High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27801
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2020-27801
Complete source record
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