BusyBox: Denial of Service A vulnerability in BusyBox might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. busybox January 01, 2017 January 01, 2017: 1 590478 remote 1.25.1 1.25.1

BusyBox is a set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils.

The recv_and_process_client_pkt function in networking/ntpd.c in BusyBox allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged NTP packet, which triggers a communication loop.

A remote attacker might send a specially crafted package to a machine running BusyBox ntpd, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All BusyBox users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/busybox-1.25.1"
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