suse · CVE-2017-16544

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 14:04:06 UTC Updated: 2025-11-05 03:46:23 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-16544 severity moderate: SUSE including 24 source package names (1.34.1:busybox-1.34.1-4.9.1, 15.4:busybox-1.35.0-150400.3.3.1, …), 79 product×package rows across 47 product lines (Container bci/bci-busybox, Container caasp/v4/busybox, … (47 product lines)): Fixed 77, Will Not Fix 2.

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.

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