CVE-2024-58251

Publication date 23 April 2025

Last updated 20 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
busybox	25.10 questing	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.04 plucky	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2025-10-20]
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2025-10-20, there is no fix from upstream for this issue

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	2.5 · Low
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L