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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2023-5178-01 Important: Busybox Code Exec

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Urgent patch for busybox in RHEL 6 tackles significant vulnerabilities related to CVE-2022-48174.
An update for busybox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

BusyBox is a binary file that combines a large number of common system utilities into a single executable file. BusyBox provides replacements for most GNU file utilities, shell utilities, and other command-line tools.
Security Fix(es):
* busybox: stack overflow vulnerability in ash.c leads to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-48174)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact stack overflow important update busybox

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48174 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS):
Source: busybox-1.15.1-21.el6_10.1.src.rpm
i386: busybox-1.15.1-21.el6_10.1.i686.rpm
s390x: busybox-1.15.1-21.el6_10.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: busybox-1.15.1-21.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS):
i386: busybox-petitboot-1.15.1-21.el6_10.1.i686.rpm
s390x: busybox-petitboot-1.15.1-21.el6_10.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: busybox-petitboot-1.15.1-21.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5178-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5178
Issue date: 2023-09-18

Topic

An update for busybox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Extended Lifecycle Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact stack overflow important update busybox

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS) - i386, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS) - i386, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2237153 - CVE-2022-48174 busybox: stack overflow vulnerability in ash.c leads to arbitrary code execution

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