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MiracleLinux 4 : busybox-1.15.1-15.AXS4 (AXSA:2012-587:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 284173

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2012-587:01 advisory.

 Busybox is a single binary which includes versions of a large number of system commands, including a shell. This package can be very useful for recovering from certain types of system failures, particularly those involving broken shared libraries.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2006-1168 The decompress function in compress42.c in (1) ncompress 4.2.4 and (2) liblzw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow.
 CVE-2011-2716 The DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.20.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) HOST_NAME, (2) DOMAIN_NAME, (3) NIS_DOMAIN, and (4) TFTP_SERVER_NAME host name options.
 Fixed bugs:
 The findfs command now supports the Btrfs partitions; it solves a potential error message when dumping a core file.
 When using the -F and -i options simultaneously with grep, the -i option was ignored; this has been fixed.
 The msh shell now supports the set -o pipefail command.
 When trying to execute an empty command resulting from a variable substitution (msh -c '$nonexistent_variable'), msh could crash with a segmentation fault. This has been fixed.
 msh now handles and exit empty loops properly, solving loops becoming unresponsive.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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 package.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/3102

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 284173

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2012-587.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/14/2026

Updated: 1/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

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-2006-1168

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: cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:busybox

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1168, CVE-2011-2716