CVE-2017-15873: Busybox

Medium severity, CVSS 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.

Affected products

• Busybox Busybox: version 1.27.2 only
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2017-10-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.