[OE-core] bussybox: updating to new version

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Sep 4 11:34:17 UTC 2017


On 18 August 2017 at 11:16, Andrej Valek <andrej.valek at siemens.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to ask you a question about busybox upgrading.
>
> Is there any reason, why we are still using the version 1.24.1?
> I think that, the latest version 1.27.2 has a lot of fixes and it less
> vulnerable then the current.
>
> I have checked a license and it has not been changed.
>
> Thank you for the explanation.
>

The last time an upgrade was submitted it ended up with /bin/sh being suid
root so was understandably rejected.  Nobody has submitted an upgrade since.

Ross
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