ELSA-2012-0810 Low: Oracle Linux busybox security and bug fix update
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
07/02/2012
07/25/2018
07/17/2012
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)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-busybox
- oracle-linux-upgrade-busybox-petitboot
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