Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting busybox package, versions [1.32.0,1.34.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BUSYBOX-2318787
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed19 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-28831  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-755  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade busybox to version 1.34.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions 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.

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CVSS Scores

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