Advisories » MGASA-2021-0009

Updated busybox packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Jan 2021
Modification date: 08 Jan 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2018-1000500

Description

Busybox contains a Missing SSL certificate validation vulnerability in The
"busybox wget" applet that can result in arbitrary code execution. This
attack appear to be exploitable via Simply download any file over HTTPS using
"busybox wget https://compromised-domain.com/important-file".
().
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27307
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4531-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000500

SRPMS

7/core

• busybox-1.30.1-1.1.mga7