SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : busybox (SUSE-SU-2022:3959-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 167330

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3959-1 advisory.

- Enable switch_root With this change virtme --force-initramfs works as expected.
- Enable udhcpc

busybox was updated to 1.35.0

- Adjust busybox.config for new features in find, date and cpio

- Annotate CVEs already fixed in upstream, but not mentioned in .changes yet:

* CVE-2017-16544 (bsc#1069412): Insufficient sanitization of filenames when autocompleting
* CVE-2015-9261 (bsc#1102912): huft_build misuses a pointer, causing segfaults
* CVE-2016-2147 (bsc#970663): out of bounds write (heap) due to integer underflow in udhcpc
* CVE-2016-2148 (bsc#970662): heap-based buffer overflow in OPTION_6RD parsing
* CVE-2016-6301 (bsc#991940): NTP server denial of service flaw
* CVE-2017-15873 (bsc#1064976): The get_next_block function in archival/libarchive/decompress_bunzip2.c has an Integer Overflow
* CVE-2017-15874 (bsc#1064978): archival/libarchive/decompress_unlzma.c has an Integer Underflow
* CVE-2019-5747 (bsc#1121428): out of bounds read in udhcp components
* CVE-2021-42373, CVE-2021-42374, CVE-2021-42375, CVE-2021-42376, CVE-2021-42377, CVE-2021-42378, CVE-2021-42379, CVE-2021-42380, CVE-2021-42381, CVE-2021-42382, CVE-2021-42383, CVE-2021-42384, CVE-2021-42385, CVE-2021-42386 (bsc#1192869) : v1.34.0 bugfixes
* CVE-2021-28831 (bsc#1184522): invalid free or segmentation fault via malformed gzip data
* CVE-2018-20679 (bsc#1121426): out of bounds read in udhcp
* CVE-2018-1000517 (bsc#1099260): Heap-based buffer overflow in the retrieve_file_data()
* CVE-2011-5325 (bsc#951562): tar directory traversal
* CVE-2018-1000500 (bsc#1099263): wget: Missing SSL certificate validation

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, busybox-static, busybox-testsuite and / or busybox-warewulf3 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 167330

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3959-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/13/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.67

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42377

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: 11/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-5325, CVE-2015-9261, CVE-2016-2147, CVE-2016-2148, CVE-2016-6301, CVE-2017-15873, CVE-2017-15874, CVE-2017-16544, CVE-2018-1000500, CVE-2018-1000517, CVE-2018-20679, CVE-2019-5747, CVE-2021-28831, CVE-2021-42373, CVE-2021-42374, CVE-2021-42375, CVE-2021-42376, CVE-2021-42377, CVE-2021-42378, CVE-2021-42379, CVE-2021-42380, CVE-2021-42381, CVE-2021-42382, CVE-2021-42383, CVE-2021-42384, CVE-2021-42385, CVE-2021-42386

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3959-1

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