Executive Summary

Summary
Title BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201312-02 First vendor Publication 2013-12-03
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2013-12-03
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in BusyBox, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

BusyBox is set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DHCP request to possibly execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All BusyBox users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/busybox-1.21.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2006-1168 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-1168
[ 2 ] CVE-2011-2716 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2716
[ 3 ] CVE-2013-1813 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1813

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201312-02.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201312-02.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
50 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20788
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20788
Title: RHSA-2012:0308: busybox security and bug fix update (Low)
Description: The DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.20.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) HOST_NAME, (2) DOMAIN_NAME, (3) NIS_DOMAIN, and (4) TFTP_SERVER_NAME host name options.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2012:0308-03
CVE-2006-1168
CVE-2011-2716
 Version: 29
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
 Product(s): busybox
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21495
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21495
Title: RHSA-2012:0810: busybox security and bug fix update (Low)
Description: The DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.20.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) HOST_NAME, (2) DOMAIN_NAME, (3) NIS_DOMAIN, and (4) TFTP_SERVER_NAME host name options.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2012:0810-04
CESA-2012:0810
CVE-2006-1168
CVE-2011-2716
 Version: 29
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
CentOS Linux 6
 Product(s): busybox
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22866
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22866
Title: ELSA-2012:0308: busybox security and bug fix update (Low)
Description: The DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.20.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) HOST_NAME, (2) DOMAIN_NAME, (3) NIS_DOMAIN, and (4) TFTP_SERVER_NAME host name options.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2012:0308-03
CVE-2006-1168
CVE-2011-2716
 Version: 13
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): busybox
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23400
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23400
Title: ELSA-2012:0810: busybox security and bug fix update (Low)
Description: The DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.20.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) HOST_NAME, (2) DOMAIN_NAME, (3) NIS_DOMAIN, and (4) TFTP_SERVER_NAME host name options.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2012:0810-04
CVE-2006-1168
CVE-2011-2716
 Version: 13
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
 Product(s): busybox
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26241
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26241
Title: RHSA-2013:1732: busybox security and bug fix update (Low)
Description: util-linux/mdev.c in BusyBox before 1.21.0 uses 0777 permissions for parent directories when creating nested directories under /dev/, which allows local users to have unknown impact and attack vectors.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2013:1732-03
CESA-2013:1732
CVE-2013-1813
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
CentOS Linux 6
 Product(s): busybox
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27506
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27506
Title: ELSA-2013-1732 -- busybox security and bug fix update (low)
Description: [1:1.15.1-20] - Resolves: #855832 'Installation from NFS: That directory could not be mounted from the server' by switching NFS mount default from UDP to TCP. There was another place (in uclibc this time) which used UDP.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013-1732
CVE-2013-1813
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
 Product(s): busybox
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27729
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27729
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2012-0308 -- busybox security and bug fix update (low)
Description: [1:1.2.0-13] - Resolves: #768083 'busybox various flaws' including: 'buffer underflow in decompression' 'udhcpc insufficient checking of DHCP options' [1:1.2.0-12] - Resolves: #756723 'Kdump fails after findfs subcommand of busybox fails' [1:1.2.0-11] - Resolves: #689659 ''busybox cp' does not return a correct exit code when 'No space left on device''
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2012-0308
CVE-2011-2716
CVE-2006-1168
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): busybox
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27773
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27773
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2012-0810 -- busybox security and bug fix update (low)
Description: [1:1.15.1-15] - Fix btrfs support to findfs and related applets - Resolves: #751927 [1:1.15.1-14] - Resolves: #790335 'busybox various flaws' Added a fix for SEGV on empty command in hush [1:1.15.1-13] - Resolves: #790335 'busybox various flaws' including: 'buffer underflow in decompression' 'udhcpc insufficient checking of DHCP options' [1:1.15.1-12] - Backport 'set -o pipefail' support - Resolves: #782018 - Add btrfs support to findfs and related applets - Resolves: #751927
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2012-0810
CVE-2011-2716
CVE-2006-1168
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
 Product(s): busybox
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9373
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9373
Title: The decompress function in compress42.c in (1) ncompress 4.2.4 and (2) liblzw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow.
Description: The decompress function in compress42.c in (1) ncompress 4.2.4 and (2) liblzw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-1168
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 113
Application 1
Os 1
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-08-14 Name : Mandriva Update for busybox MDVSA-2012:129 (busybox)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2012_129.nasl
2012-08-14 Name : Mandriva Update for busybox MDVSA-2012:129-1 (busybox)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2012_129_1.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for busybox CESA-2012:0810 centos6
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0810_busybox_centos6.nasl
2012-06-22 Name : RedHat Update for busybox RHSA-2012:0810-04
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0810-04_busybox.nasl
2012-02-21 Name : RedHat Update for busybox RHSA-2012:0308-03
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0308-03_busybox.nasl
2012-02-12 Name : FreeBSD Ports: FreeBSD
File : nvt/freebsd_FreeBSD14.nasl
2011-11-08 Name : Mandriva Update for gimp MDVSA-2011:167 (gimp)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2011_167.nasl
2011-10-21 Name : Mandriva Update for libxfont MDVSA-2011:153 (libxfont)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2011_153.nasl
2011-10-14 Name : Mandriva Update for cups MDVSA-2011:146 (cups)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2011_146.nasl
2011-09-21 Name : FreeBSD Ports: libXfont
File : nvt/freebsd_libXfont.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for ncompress
File : nvt/sles9p5010157.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200610-03 (ncompress)
File : nvt/glsa_200610_03.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1149-1 (ncompress)
File : nvt/deb_1149_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
74185 BusyBox DHCP Server hostname Response Parsing Remote Command Execution
27868 ncompress decompress() Function Datastream Handling Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-11-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0168.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-12 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-1732.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201312-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2012-103.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2006-0663.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0810.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0308.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-06 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2012-129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20120221_busybox_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20120620_busybox_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-07-11 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2012-0810.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-06-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0810.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-02-21 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0308.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-11-07 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2011-167.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-10-18 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2011-153.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-10-11 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2011-146.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_ncompress-1911.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-12-16 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2006-140.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1149.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-10-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200610-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-09-14 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2006-0663.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-09-14 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2006-0663.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:37:57
  • Multiple Updates
2013-12-03 05:18:08
  • First insertion