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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-20679: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-20679: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/09/2019
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in BusyBox before 1.30.0. An out of bounds read in udhcp components (consumed by the DHCP server, client, and relay) allows a remote attacker to leak sensitive information from the stack by sending a crafted DHCP message. This is related to verification in udhcp_get_option() in networking/udhcp/common.c that 4-byte options are indeed 4 bytes.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-busybox

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