NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting busybox package, versions [,1.27.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BUSYBOX-2318793
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed26 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jul 2018

CVE-2015-9261  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade busybox to version 1.27.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference huft_build in archival/libarchive/decompress_gunzip.c in BusyBox before 1.27.2 misuses a pointer, causing segfaults and an application crash during an unzip operation on a specially crafted ZIP file.

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