MiracleLinux 3 : busybox-1.2.0-13.0.1.AXS3 (AXSA:2012-266:02)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 284438

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2012-266:02 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 No information available at the time of writing, please refer to the CVE links below.
Fixed bugs:
Previously, when a device ran out of space while attempting to copy files of more than 4 gigabytes, the cp command wrongly returned 0 as the exit code. This has been fixed and cp now returns 1 in that case.
On systems with thousands of block device nodes in /dev/, the findfs command failed to check them all.
This has been fixed and findfs checks all block devices.

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 and / or busybox-anaconda packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 284438

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2012-266.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Miracle Linux Local Security Checks

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: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:busybox-anaconda, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:busybox, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:3

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2006

Reference Information

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

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