vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15873: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 24, 2017
Added
Nov 24, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The get_next_block function in archival/libarchive/decompress_bunzip2.c in BusyBox 1.27.2 has an Integer Overflow that may lead to a write access violation.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-busybox
Title
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