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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201312-02">
  <title>BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in BusyBox, allowing
    remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service
    condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">busybox</product>
  <announced>December 03, 2013</announced>
  <revised>December 03, 2013: 1</revised>
  <bug>379857</bug>
  <bug>426504</bug>
  <bug>461372</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/busybox" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.21.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.21.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>BusyBox is set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for
      GNU Coreutils.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DHCP request to
      possibly execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All BusyBox users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/busybox-1.21.0"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-1168">CVE-2006-1168</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2716">CVE-2011-2716</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1813">CVE-2013-1813</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:58 +0000">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 03 Dec 2013 03:51:08 +0000">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
</glsa>