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Ubuntu: USN-3935-1 (CVE-2016-2147): BusyBox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3935-1 (CVE-2016-2147): BusyBox vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/09/2017
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/10/2019
Modified
03/09/2021

Description

Integer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RFC1035-encoded domain name, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap write.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-busybox
  • ubuntu-upgrade-busybox-initramfs
  • ubuntu-upgrade-busybox-static
  • ubuntu-upgrade-udhcpc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-udhcpd

References

  • USN-3935-1
  • CVE-2016-2147

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