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SUSE Linux: 2022:4371-1 Moderate: busybox Vulnerability Fix

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2022
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A recent patch addresses two security issues within busybox for SUSE environments. The assessment given indicates a moderate level of importance for this security update.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for busybox fixes the following issues: - CVE-2022-30065: Fixed use-after-free in the AWK applet (bsc#1199744). - CVE-2014-9645: Fixed loading of unwanted module with / in module names (bsc#914660). - Update to 1.35.0 also introduced: - awk: fix printf %%, fix read beyond end of buffer - 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 Patch Instructions:

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References

#1199744 #914660

Cross- CVE-2014-9645 CVE-2022-30065

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-2022-30065 (NVD) : 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-30065 (SUSE): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15-SP4

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3

SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3

SUSE Manager Server 4.3

openSUSE Leap 15.4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9645.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-30065.html

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:4371-1
Rating: moderate

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