Security update for busybox

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:4371-1
Rating: moderate
References:
Cross-References:
CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2014-9645 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2022-30065 ( SUSE ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2022-30065 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP4
  • openSUSE Leap 15.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.3

An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

This update for busybox fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2022-30065: Fixed use-after-free in the AWK applet (bsc#1199744).

  • CVE-2014-9645: Fixed loading of unwanted module with / in module names (bsc#914660).

  • Update to 1.35.0 also introduced:

  • awk: fix printf %%, fix read beyond end of buffer
  • chrt: silence analyzer warning
  • libarchive: remove duplicate forward declaration
  • mount: "mount -o rw ...." should not fall back to RO mount
  • ps: fix -o pid=PID,args interpreting entire "PID,args" as header
  • tar: prevent malicious archives with long name sizes causing OOM
  • udhcpc6: fix udhcp_find_option to actually find DHCP6 options
  • xxd: fix -p -r
  • support for new optoins added to basename, cpio, date, find, mktemp, wget and others

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.4
    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2022-4371=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2022-4371=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • busybox-static-1.35.0-150400.3.8.1
    • busybox-testsuite-1.35.0-150400.3.8.1
    • busybox-1.35.0-150400.3.8.1
  • openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)
    • busybox-iputils-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-less-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-adduser-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-gzip-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-ed-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-which-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-psmisc-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-gawk-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-iproute2-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-sysvinit-tools-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-patch-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-util-linux-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-diffutils-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-hostname-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-tunctl-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-sendmail-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-sed-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-syslogd-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-findutils-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-kmod-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-man-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-tftp-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-vi-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-whois-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-links-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-attr-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-telnet-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-sh-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-bc-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-grep-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-dos2unix-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-netcat-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-traceroute-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-sharutils-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-selinux-tools-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-tar-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-xz-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-kbd-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-ncurses-utils-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-unzip-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-time-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-misc-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-procps-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-bind-utils-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-vlan-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-net-tools-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-bzip2-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-wget-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-cpio-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-policycoreutils-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
    • busybox-coreutils-1.35.0-150400.4.3.14
  • openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • busybox-warewulf3-1.35.0-150400.3.8.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • busybox-static-1.35.0-150400.3.8.1
    • busybox-1.35.0-150400.3.8.1

References: