SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : busybox (SUSE-SU-2021:3531-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 154647

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3531-1 advisory.

- CVE-2021-28831: Fixed invalid free or segmentation fault via malformed gzip data (bsc#1184522).
- CVE-2018-20679: Fixed out of bounds read in udhcp (bsc#1121426).
- CVE-2018-1000517: Fixed buffer overflow in the retrieve_file_data() (bsc#1099260).
- CVE-2011-5325: Fixed a directory traversal related to 'tar' command (bsc#951562).
- CVE-2018-1000500: Fixed missing SSL certificate validation related to the 'wget' command (bsc#1099263).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected busybox and / or busybox-static packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 154647

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3531-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/28/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2018-1000517

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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:busybox-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:busybox, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-5325, CVE-2018-1000500, CVE-2018-1000517, CVE-2018-20679, CVE-2021-28831

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3531-1

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