[Buildroot] [git commit] package/busybox: patch CVE-2024-58251

commit: https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/0e94f8d4de7b5421d5c0d21e22122a444c632770
branch: https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/tree/master

Based on the work of the Debian community, this patch fixes the
following vulnerability:

This CVE hasn't been addressed upstream and the bugs discussion is 404
[1]. But the same patch is applied on Busybox v1.38 in Yocto & Debian.

- CVE-2024-58251:
    In netstat in BusyBox through 1.37.0, local users can launch of
    network application with an argv[0] containing an ANSI terminal escape
    sequence, leading to a denial of service (terminal locked up) when
    netstat is used by a victim.

For more information, see:
  - https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/busybox/-/blob/master/debian/patches/netstat-sanitize-argv0-for-p-CVE-2024-58251.patch
  - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-58251

This patch is still applied on Debian & Yocto as of busybox version
1.38.

[1] https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15922

Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <[email protected]>
---
 ...tstat-sanitize-argv0-for-p-CVE-2024-58251.patch | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 package/busybox/busybox.mk                         |  3 ++
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/busybox/0012-netstat-sanitize-argv0-for-p-CVE-2024-58251.patch b/package/busybox/0012-netstat-sanitize-argv0-for-p-CVE-2024-58251.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5891424c00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/busybox/0012-netstat-sanitize-argv0-for-p-CVE-2024-58251.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+From: Valery Ushakov <[email protected]>
+Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:31:53 +0000
+Subject: netstat: CVE-2024-58251 - sanitize argv0 for -p
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1104009
+
+Signed-off-by: Valery Ushakov <[email protected]>
+Upstream: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/busybox/-/blob/master/debian/patches/netstat-sanitize-argv0-for-p-CVE-2024-58251.patch
+CVE: CVE-2024-58251
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <[email protected]>
+---
+ networking/netstat.c | 7 ++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/networking/netstat.c b/networking/netstat.c
+index 807800a62..d979f6079 100644
+--- a/networking/netstat.c
++++ b/networking/netstat.c
+@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
+ 
+ #include "libbb.h"
+ #include "inet_common.h"
++#include "unicode.h"
+ 
+ //usage:#define netstat_trivial_usage
+ //usage:       "[-"IF_ROUTE("r")"al] [-tuwx] [-en"IF_FEATURE_NETSTAT_WIDE("W")IF_FEATURE_NETSTAT_PRG("p")"]"
+@@ -314,9 +315,12 @@ static int FAST_FUNC dir_act(struct recursive_state *state,
+ 		return FALSE;
+ 	cmdline_buf[n] = '\0';
+ 
++	/* don't write process-controlled argv[0] to the user's terminal as-is */
++	const char *argv0base = printable_string(bb_basename(cmdline_buf));
++
+ 	/* go through all files in /proc/PID/fd and check whether they are sockets */
+ 	strcpy(proc_pid_fname + len - (sizeof("cmdline")-1), "fd");
+-	pid_slash_progname = concat_path_file(pid, bb_basename(cmdline_buf)); /* "PID/argv0" */
++	pid_slash_progname = concat_path_file(pid, argv0base); /* "PID/argv0" */
+ 	n = recursive_action(proc_pid_fname,
+ 			ACTION_RECURSE | ACTION_QUIET,
+ 			add_to_prg_cache_if_socket,
+@@ -686,6 +690,7 @@ int netstat_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
+ 	unsigned opt;
+ 
+ 	INIT_G();
++	init_unicode();
+ 
+ 	/* Option string must match NETSTAT_xxx constants */
+ 	opt = getopt32(argv, NETSTAT_OPTS);
+-- 
+2.34.1
+
diff --git a/package/busybox/busybox.mk b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
index 681624f6dd..855d553360 100644
--- a/package/busybox/busybox.mk
+++ b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ BUSYBOX_IGNORE_CVES += CVE-2022-28391
 # 0007-awk.c-fix-CVE-2023-42366-bug-15874.patch
 BUSYBOX_IGNORE_CVES += CVE-2023-42366
 
+# 0012-netstat-sanitize-argv0-for-p-CVE-2024-58251.patch
+BUSYBOX_IGNORE_CVES += CVE-2024-58251
+
 # 0010-testsuite-tar-tests-fix-test-after-cve-2025-46394.patch
 BUSYBOX_IGNORE_CVES += CVE-2025-46394
 
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