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Alpine: busybox: security update to 1.24.2-r13

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 403729

Description

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

 - The get_next_block function in archival/libarchive/decompress_bunzip2.c in BusyBox 1.27.2 has an Integer
 Overflow that may lead to a write access violation. (CVE-2017-15873)

 - In the add_match function in libbb/lineedit.c in BusyBox through 1.27.2, the tab autocomplete feature of
 the shell, used to get a list of filenames in a directory, does not sanitize filenames and results in
 executing any escape sequence in the terminal. This could potentially result in code execution, arbitrary
 file writes, or other attacks. (CVE-2017-16544)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-15873

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-16544

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403729

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16544

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 10/24/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15873, CVE-2017-16544