gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201803-12.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201803-12">
  <title>BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in BusyBox, the worst of
    which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">busybox</product>
  <announced>2018-03-26</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-03-26</revised>
  <bug>563756</bug>
  <bug>635392</bug>
  <bug>638258</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/busybox" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.28.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.28.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>BusyBox is a set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for
      GNU Coreutils.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or have
      other unspecified impacts.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All BusyBox users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/busybox-1.28.0"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15873">CVE-2017-15873</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15874">CVE-2017-15874</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16544">CVE-2017-16544</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-03-13T17:58:35Z">chrisadr</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-03-26T16:24:01Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>