BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in BusyBox, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition. busybox December 03, 2013 December 03, 2013: 1 379857 426504 461372 remote 1.21.0 1.21.0

BusyBox is set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DHCP request to possibly execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All BusyBox users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/busybox-1.21.0"

CVE-2006-1168 CVE-2011-2716 CVE-2013-1813 underling pinkbyte