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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for busybox (ALAS-2012-103) (multiple CVEs)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for busybox (ALAS-2012-103) (multiple CVEs)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/14/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-busybox
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-busybox-petitboot

References

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