CVE-2017-15873

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.3%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-190
Published: 2017-10-24
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

busybox:busybox
canonical:ubuntu_linux
debian:debian_linux

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/

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