Out-of-Bounds Affecting busybox package, versions [,1.25.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.75% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BUSYBOX-2318791
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed9 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-2148  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade busybox to version 1.25.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Heap-based buffer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving OPTION_6RD parsing.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1