Bug 1515249 – CVE-2017-15873 busybox: Integer overflow in the get_next_block function

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Bug 1515249 - (CVE-2017-15873) CVE-2017-15873 busybox: Integer overflow in the get_next_block function

Summary:	CVE-2017-15873 busybox: Integer overflow in the get_next_block function

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-15873

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1515259
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Reported:	2017-11-20 07:43 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-11-20 07:58 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-11-20 07:43:11 EST

The get_next_block function in archival/libarchive/decompress_bunzip2.c in BusyBox 1.27.2 has an Integer Overflow that may lead to a write access violation.

Upstream issue:

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10431

Upstream patch:

https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=0402cb32df015d9372578e3db27db47b33d5c7b0

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-11-20 07:58:55 EST

Created busybox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1515259]

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