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LIN10-2620 : Security Advisory - busybox - CVE-2017-16544

Created: Nov 30, 2017    Updated: Mar 4, 2019
Resolved Date: Dec 10, 2017
Previous ID: LIN9-5911
Found In Version: 10.17.41.1
Fix Version: 10.17.41.2
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 17
Component/s: Userspace

Description

In the add_match function in libbb/lineedit.c in BusyBox through 1.27.2, the tab autocomplete feature of the shell, used to get a list of filenames in a directory, does not sanitize filenames and results in executing any escape sequence in the terminal. This could potentially result in code execution, arbitrary file writes, or other attacks.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16544

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