Mageia alert MGASA-2012-0172 (busybox)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2012-0172: busybox-1.19.3-1.1.mga2
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Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:06:52 +0200
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MGASA-2012-0172
Date: 	July 19th, 2012
Affected releases: 	2


Description:
Updated busybox packages fix security vulnerability:

The BusyBox DHCP client, udhcpc, did not sufficiently sanitize certain
options provided in DHCP server replies, such as the client hostname. A
malicious DHCP server could send such an option with a specially-crafted
value to a DHCP client. If this option's value was saved on the client
system, and then later insecurely evaluated by a process that assumes the
option is trusted, it could lead to arbitrary code execution with the
privileges of that process. Note: udhcpc is not used on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux by default, and no DHCP client script is provided with the busybox
packages (CVE-2011-2716).

Additionally, build issues with Linux kernel 3.3 have been fixed.


Updated Packages:
busybox-1.19.3-1.1.mga2
busybox-static-1.19.3-1.1.mga2


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2716
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0810.html
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6673
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-...