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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-2716: BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-2716: BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/03/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-apps-busybox

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