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SUSE-SU-2026:23446-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2026-09-02 09:40 - Updated: 2026-09-19 15:42
Summary
Security update for busybox
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for busybox
Description of the patch: This update for busybox fixes the following issues: - CVE-2023-42366: heap buffer overflow in the `next_token` function of `editors/awk.c` (bsc#1217586). - CVE-2026-38752: stack buffer overflow in the `evaluate()` function of `editors/awk.c` (bsc#1271544). - CVE-2026-38753: use-after-free in the `awk_sub()` function of `editors/awk.c` (bsc#1271545). - CVE-2026-38754: heap buffer overflow in `ifsbreakup()` function of `shell/ash.c` (bsc#1271547). - CVE-2026-38755: heap buffer overflow in `evalcommand()` function of `shell/ash.c` (bsc#1271548).
Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-875
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2023-42366
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.0:busybox-0:1.36.1-5.1.s390x —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.0:busybox-0:1.36.1-5.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate
CVE-2026-38752
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Recommended 2 products, the same list as for CVE-2023-42366
Threats
Impact low
CVE-2026-38753
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
Recommended 2 products, the same list as for CVE-2023-42366
Threats
Impact moderate
CVE-2026-38754
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Recommended 2 products, the same list as for CVE-2023-42366
Threats
Impact moderate
CVE-2026-38755
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Recommended 2 products, the same list as for CVE-2023-42366
Threats
Impact low
References
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.