CVE-2024-58251

Publication date 23 April 2025

Last updated 16 February 2026

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
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2026-02-16]
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2026-02-16]
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2026-02-16, there is no fix from upstream for this issue but Debian has added proposed fixes to 1:1.37.0-10

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