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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202105-09">
+ <title>BusyBox: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in BusyBox might allow remote attackers to cause a
+ Denial of Service condition.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">busybox</product>
+ <announced>2021-05-26</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2021-05-26</revised>
+ <bug>777255</bug>
+ <access>local, remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/busybox" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.32.1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.32.1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>BusyBox is a set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for
+ GNU Coreutils.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>It was discovered that BusyBox mishandled the error bit on the
+ huft_build result pointer when decompressing GZIP compressed data.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="low">
+ <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted GZIP
+ file using BusyBox, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
+ </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-1.32.1"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28831">CVE-2021-28831</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2021-05-24T01:11:14Z">whissi</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2021-05-26T08:14:24Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>