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SUSE: 2022:4260-1 Important: Busybox Module Loading Issue

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has announced a vital security update for BusyBox, impacting several embedded Linux environments, emphasizing immediate patch application for users to enhance system safety
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for busybox fixes the following issues: - CVE-2014-9645: Fixed loading of unwanted module with / in module names (bsc#914660). - Enable switch_root With this change virtme --force-initramfs works as expected. - Enable udhcpc Update to 1.35.0: - awk: fix printf %%, fix read beyond end of buffer - Adjust busybox.config for new features in find, date and cpio - chrt: silence analyzer warning - libarchive: remove duplicate forward declaration - mount: "mount -o rw ...." should not fall back to RO mount - ps: fix -o pid=PID,args interpreting entire "PID,args" as header - tar: prevent malicious archives with long name sizes causing OOM - udhcpc6: fix udhcp_find_option to actually find DHCP6 options - xxd: fix -p -r - support for new optoins added to basename, cpio, date, find, mktemp, wget and others

References

#1099260 #914660

Cross- CVE-2014-9645 CVE-2018-1000517

CVSS scores:

CVE-2014-9645 (NVD) : 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVE-2018-1000517 (NVD) : 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2018-1000517 (SUSE): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected Products:

SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0

SUSE Enterprise Storage 6

SUSE Enterprise Storage 7

SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-ESPOS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP2-E...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:4260-1
Rating: important

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