CVE-2021-28831

Summary

CVECVE-2021-28831
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-19 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:32:00 UTC
Descriptiondecompress_gunzip.c in BusyBox through 1.32.1 mishandles the error bit on the huft_build result pointer, with a resultant invalid free or segmentation fault, via malformed gzip data.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-755

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Busybox Busybox All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: busybox-1.32.1-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
busybox - BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux MISC git.busybox.net
[SECURITY] [DLA 2614-1] busybox security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: busybox-1.32.1-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: busybox-1.33.0-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
BusyBox: Denial of service (GLSA 202105-09) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: busybox-1.32.1-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: busybox-1.32.1-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: busybox-1.33.0-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178490 Debian Security Update for busybox (DLA 2614-1)
  • 183151 Debian Security Update for busybox (CVE-2021-28831)
  • 198599 Ubuntu Security Notification for BusyBox Vulnerabilities (USN-5179-1)
  • 281067 Fedora Security Update for busybox (FEDORA-2021-2024803354)
  • 281068 Fedora Security Update for busybox (FEDORA-2021-d20c8a4730)
  • 281430 Fedora Security Update for busybox (FEDORA-2021-2024803354)
  • 281431 Fedora Security Update for busybox (FEDORA-2021-e82915eee1)
  • 281432 Fedora Security Update for busybox (FEDORA-2021-d20c8a4730)
  • 352276 Amazon Linux Security Update for busybox: ALAS-2021-1496
  • 500081 Alpine Linux Security Update for busybox
  • 501386 Alpine Linux Security Update for busybox
  • 501732 Alpine Linux Security Update for busybox
  • 503875 Alpine Linux Security Update for busybox
  • 670764 EulerOS Security Update for busybox (EulerOS-SA-2021-2522)
  • 670788 EulerOS Security Update for busybox (EulerOS-SA-2021-2546)
  • 710106 Gentoo Linux BusyBox Denial of service vulnerability (GLSA 202105-09)
  • 751281 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for busybox (SUSE-SU-2021:3531-1)
  • 751290 OpenSUSE Security Update for busybox (openSUSE-SU-2021:3531-1)
  • 751304 OpenSUSE Security Update for busybox (openSUSE-SU-2021:1408-1)
  • 751624 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for busybox (SUSE-SU-2022:0135-1)
  • 751633 OpenSUSE Security Update for busybox (openSUSE-SU-2022:0135-1)
  • 752794 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for busybox (SUSE-SU-2022:3959-1)
  • 752903 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for busybox (SUSE-SU-2022:4253-1)
  • 900163 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for busybox 1.32.0
  • 901718 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for busybox (6342-1)
  • 903184 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for busybox (3988)
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