CVE-2019-20051 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-20051?

CVE-2019-20051 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 27 Dec 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A floating-point exception was discovered in PackLinuxElf::elf_hash in p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 3.95. The vulnerability causes an application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-682

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-20051?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Upx Upx.

How do I fix CVE-2019-20051?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-20051 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-20051 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20051, GHSA-4pmq-77vh-vh7v, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20051.