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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:1408-1 Critical busybox Fixes Released

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important openSUSE patch tackles various vulnerabilities in busybox, boosting overall system security.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for busybox fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-28831: Fixed invalid free or segmentation fault via malformed

gzip data (bsc#1184522).

- CVE-2018-20679: Fixed out of bounds read in udhcp (bsc#1121426).

- CVE-2018-1000517: Fixed buffer overflow in the retrieve_file_data()

(bsc#1099260).

- CVE-2011-5325: Fixed a directory traversal related to 'tar' command

(bsc#951562).

- CVE-2018-1000500: Fixed missing SSL certificate validation related to

the 'wget' command (bsc#1099263).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update important segmentation fault busybox openSUSE Leap

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1408=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

busybox-1.26.2-lp152.5.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

busybox-static-1.26.2-lp152.5.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-5325.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000500.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000517.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20679.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28831.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099260

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099263

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1121426

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184522

https://bugzilla.suse.com/951562

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1408-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update important segmentation fault busybox openSUSE Leap

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