Integer overflow in BusyBox - CVE-2017-15874
Published: March 29, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU11325
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15874
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: busybox.net
Affected software:
BusyBox
BusyBox
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the archival/libarchive/decompress_unlzma.c due to integer overflow. A remote attacker can trigger read access violation and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists in the archival/libarchive/decompress_unlzma.c due to integer overflow. A remote attacker can trigger read access violation and cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-15874
Update to version 1.28.0.