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An upx security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: upx-4.0.1-2.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-8d91390935
2023-01-22 01:47:35.218330
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Name : upx
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 4.0.1
Release : 2.fc36
URL :   https://github.com/upx/upx
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:

Patches for CVE-2023-23456 and CVE-2023-23457
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 12 2023 Gwyn Ciesla - 4.0.1-2
- Patches for CVE-2023-23456, CVE-2023-23457
* Thu Nov 17 2022 Gwyn Ciesla - 4.0.1-1
- 4.0.1
* Fri Nov 4 2022 Gwyn Ciesla - 4.0.0-1
- 4.0.0
* Sat Jul 23 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.96-12
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2160383 - CVE-2023-23456 upx: heap-buffer-overflow in PackTmt::pack() [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160383
[ 2 ] Bug #2160385 - CVE-2023-23457 upx: SEGV on PackLinuxElf64::invert_pt_dynamic() in p_lx_elf.cpp [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160385
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-8d91390935' 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
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