CVE-2017-15873

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-10-24

Last modified

2025-06-09

Weaknesses

CWE-190

Affected products

• Busybox (Busybox)
• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)

References

• https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10431
• https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=0402cb32df015d9372578e3db27db47b33d5c7b0
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/