Mageia 7, 8 - MGASA-2021-0310 Critical: BusyBox Segmentation Fault
mageia
July 4, 2021
Updated busybox packages fix security vulnerability: decompress_gunzip.c in BusyBox through 1.32.1 mishandles the error bit on the huft_build result pointer, with a resultant inva...
Summary
Updated busybox packages fix security vulnerability:
decompress_gunzip.c in BusyBox through 1.32.1 mishandles the error bit on
the huft_build result pointer, with a resultant invalid free or segmentation
fault, via malformed gzip data (CVE-2021-28831).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28995
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ZASBW7QRRLY5V2R44MQ4QQM4CZIDHM2U/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28831
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/busybox-1.30.1-1.2.mga7
- 8/core/busybox-1.32.1-1.1.mga8
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Publication date: 04 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0310.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-28831
Topics Covered
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