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Alpine: busybox: security update to 1.24.2-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 403726

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - 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. (CVE-2016-2147)

 - Heap-based buffer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to
 have unspecified impact via vectors involving OPTION_6RD parsing. (CVE-2016-2148)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-2147

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-2148

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 403726

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 6/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2148

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2147, CVE-2016-2148

BID: 96322, 96325