<div class="container">
<h1>Security update for busybox, busybox-links</h1>
<table class="table table-striped table-bordered">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2025:03271-1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2025-09-18T13:34:17Z</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Rating:</th>
<td>moderate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>References:</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203397">bsc#1203397</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203399">bsc#1203399</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206798">bsc#1206798</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215943">bsc#1215943</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217580">bsc#1217580</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217584">bsc#1217584</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217585">bsc#1217585</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217883">bsc#1217883</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239176">bsc#1239176</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243201">bsc#1243201</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-13039">jsc#PED-13039</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24210">jsc#SLE-24210</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24211">jsc#SLE-24211</a>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
Cross-References:
</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42363.html">CVE-2023-42363</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42364.html">CVE-2023-42364</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42365.html">CVE-2023-42365</a>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>CVSS scores:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-42363</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-42363</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-42364</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.1</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-42364</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-42364</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-42364</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-42365</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-42365</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Affected Products:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>An update that solves three vulnerabilities, contains three features and has seven security fixes can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for busybox, busybox-links fixes the following issues:</p>
<p>Updated to version 1.37.0 (jsc#PED-13039):</p>
<ul>
<li>CVE-2023-42363: Fixed use-after-free vulnerability in xasprintf function in xfuncs_printf.c (bsc#1217580)</li>
<li>CVE-2023-42364: Fixed use-after-free in the awk.c evaluate function (bsc#1217584)</li>
<li>CVE-2023-42365: Fixed use-after-free in the awk.c copyvar function (bsc#1217585)</li>
</ul>
<p>Other fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>fix generation of file lists via Dockerfile </li>
<li>add copy of busybox.links from the container to catch changes
to busybox config</li>
<li>Blacklist creating links for halt, reboot, shutdown commands to avoid accidental
use in a fully booted system (bsc#1243201) </li>
<li>Add getfattr applet to attr filelist</li>
<li>busybox-udhcpc conflicts with udhcp.</li>
<li>Add new sub-package for udhcpc</li>
<li>zgrep: don't set the label option as only the real grep
supports it (bsc#1215943)</li>
<li>Add conflict for coreutils-systemd, package got splitted</li>
<li>Check in filelists instead of buildrequiring all non-busybox utils</li>
<li>Replace transitional %usrmerged macro with regular version check (bsc#1206798)</li>
<li>Create sub-package "hexedit" [bsc#1203399]</li>
<li>Create sub-package "sha3sum" [bsc#1203397]</li>
<li>Drop update-alternatives support</li>
<li>Add provides smtp_daemon to busybox-sendmail</li>
<li>Add conflicts: mawk to busybox-gawk</li>
<li>fix mkdir path to point to /usr/bin instead of /bin</li>
<li>add placeholder variable and ignore applet logic to busybox.install </li>
<li>enable halt, poweroff, reboot commands (bsc#1243201) </li>
<li>Fully enable udhcpc and document that this tool needs special
configuration and does not work out of the box [bsc#1217883]</li>
<li>Replace transitional %usrmerged macro with regular version check (bsc#1206798)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
</p>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">
openSUSE Leap 15.5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3271=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
openSUSE Leap 15.6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3271=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
Basesystem Module 15-SP6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-3271=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-3271=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-3271=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-3271=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-3271=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>busybox-tftp-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-syslogd-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-patch-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-policycoreutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-traceroute-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-attr-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-selinux-tools-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-cpio-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-less-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sha3sum-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-util-linux-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-coreutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-iproute2-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sed-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-man-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-tunctl-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-xz-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-links-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-vi-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-psmisc-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sysvinit-tools-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-gzip-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-dos2unix-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-bind-utils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-time-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-wget-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-kbd-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-gawk-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-iputils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-misc-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-findutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-net-tools-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-bc-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-which-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-grep-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-hexedit-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sendmail-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sharutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-unzip-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-bzip2-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-tar-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-procps-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-adduser-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-udhcpc-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-diffutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-ncurses-utils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-whois-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-kmod-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-netcat-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-ed-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sh-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-telnet-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-hostname-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-vlan-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
<ul>
<li>busybox-static-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
<li>busybox-testsuite-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
<li>busybox-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 x86_64 i586)
<ul>
<li>busybox-warewulf3-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>busybox-tftp-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-syslogd-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-patch-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-policycoreutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-traceroute-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-attr-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-selinux-tools-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-cpio-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-less-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-util-linux-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-coreutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-iproute2-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sed-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-man-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-tunctl-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-xz-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-links-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-vi-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-psmisc-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sysvinit-tools-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-gzip-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-dos2unix-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-bind-utils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-time-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-wget-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-kbd-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-gawk-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-iputils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-misc-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-findutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-net-tools-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-bc-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-which-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-grep-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sendmail-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sharutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-unzip-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-bzip2-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-tar-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-procps-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-adduser-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-diffutils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-ncurses-utils-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-whois-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-kmod-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-netcat-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-ed-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-sh-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-telnet-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-hostname-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
<li>busybox-vlan-1.37.0-150500.7.7.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>busybox-static-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
<li>busybox-testsuite-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>busybox-warewulf3-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>busybox-static-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
<li>busybox-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>busybox-static-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
<li>busybox-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>busybox-static-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
<li>busybox-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>busybox-static-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
<li>busybox-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
<ul>
<li>busybox-static-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
<li>busybox-1.37.0-150500.10.11.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42363.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42363.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42364.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42364.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42365.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42365.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203397">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203397</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203399">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203399</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206798">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206798</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215943">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215943</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217580">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217580</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217584">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217584</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217585">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217585</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217883">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217883</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239176">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239176</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243201">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243201</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-13039">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-13039</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24210">https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24210</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24211">https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24211</a>
</li>
</ul>
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