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Fedora 33 FEDORA-2021-d20c8a4730 Critical: Busybox Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch addressing CVE-2021-28831 in Fedora 33 BusyBox. Important upgrade for improved command reliability and enhanced security measures.
Fix for CVE-2021-28831.

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.

Fix for CVE-2021-28831.

* Mon Mar 22 2021 Tom Callaway - 1:1.32.1-1

- update to 1.32.1

- apply upstream fix for CVE-2021-28831

[ 1 ] Bug #1941028 - CVE-2021-28831 busybox: invalid free or segmentation fault via malformed gzip data

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941028

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-d20c8a4730' 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: 1.32.1
Release: 1.fc33
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Summary: Statically linked binary providing simplified versions of system commands

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