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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2021-5a95823596 Critical: Busybox Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade for busybox on Fedora 33 that addresses various severe vulnerabilities and improves the dependability of system commands.
Update to 1.34.1

Summary

Busybox is a single binary which includes versions of a large number

of system commands, including a shell. This package can be very

useful for recovering from certain types of system failures,

particularly those involving broken shared libraries.

Update to 1.34.1. Resolves CVE-2021-42373 CVE-2021-42374 CVE-2021-42375

CVE-2021-42376 CVE-2021-42377 CVE-2021-42378 CVE-2021-42379 CVE-2021-42380

CVE-2021-42381 CVE-2021-42382 CVE-2021-42383 CVE-2021-42384 CVE-2021-42385

CVE-2021-42386 (Fedora 35+ already have 1.34.1)

* Thu Sep 30 2021 Tom Callaway - 1:1.34.1-1

- update to 1.34.1

* Thu Aug 19 2021 Tom Callaway - 1:1.34.0-1

- update to 1.34.0

* Wed Jul 21 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:1.33.1-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild

* Thu May 6 2021 Tom Callaway - 1:1.33.1-1

- update to 1.33.1

[ 1 ] Bug #2023876 - CVE-2021-42373 busybox: NULL pointer dereference in man applet leads to denial of service when a section name is supplied but no page argument is given

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023876

[ 2 ] Bug #2023881 - CVE-2021-42374 busybox: out-of-bounds read in unlzma applet leads to information leak and denial of service when crafted LZMA-compressed input is decompressed

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023881

[ 3 ] Bug #2023888 - CVE-2021-42375 busybox: incorrect handling of a special element in ash applet leads to denial of service when processing a crafted shell command

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023888

[ 4 ] Bug #2023891 - CVE-2021-42376 busybox: NULL pointer dereference in hush applet leads to denial of service when processing a crafted shell command

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023891

[ 5 ] Bug #2023895 - CVE-2021-42377 busybox: an attacker-controlled pointer free in hush applet leads to denial of service and possible code execution when processing a crafted shell command

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023895

[ 6 ] Bug #2023900 - CVE-2021-42378 busybox: use-after-free in awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the getvar_i()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023900

[ 7 ] Bug #2023904 - CVE-2021-42379 busybox: use-after-free in awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the next_input_file()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023904

[ 8 ] Bug #2023912 - CVE-2021-42380 busybox: use-after-free in awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the clrvar()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023912

[ 9 ] Bug #2023927 - CVE-2021-42381 busybox: use-after-free in awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the hash_init()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023927

[ 10 ] Bug #2023929 - CVE-2021-42382 busybox: use-after-free in awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the getvar_s()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023929

[ 11 ] Bug #2023931 - CVE-2021-42383 busybox: use-after-free in awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the evaluate()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023931

[ 12 ] Bug #2023933 - CVE-2021-42384 busybox: use-after-free in awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the handle_special()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023933

[ 13 ] Bug #2023936 - CVE-2021-42385 busybox: use-after-free in awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the evaluate()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023936

[ 14 ] Bug #2023938 - CVE-2021-42386 busybox: use-after-free in awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the nvalloc()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023938

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-5a95823596' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 1.34.1
Release: 1.fc33
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Summary: Statically linked binary providing simplified versions of system commands

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