{ stdenv, lib, buildPackages, fetchurl, fetchpatch, fetchFromGitLab, enableStatic ? stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic, enableMinimal ? false, enableAppletSymlinks ? true, # Allow forcing musl without switching stdenv itself, e.g. for our bootstrapping: # nix build -f pkgs/top-level/release.nix stdenvBootstrapTools.x86_64-linux.dist useMusl ? stdenv.hostPlatform.libc == "musl", musl, extraConfig ? "", # For tests hostname, coreutils, zip, which, simple-http-server, }: assert stdenv.hostPlatform.libc == "musl" -> useMusl; let configParser = '' function parseconfig { while IFS=" " read NAME OPTION; do if ! [[ "$NAME" =~ ^CONFIG_ ]]; then continue; fi echo "parseconfig: removing $NAME" sed -i /$NAME'\(=\| \)'/d .config echo "parseconfig: setting $NAME=$OPTION" echo "$NAME=$OPTION" >> .config done } ''; libcConfig = lib.optionalString useMusl '' CONFIG_FEATURE_UTMP n CONFIG_FEATURE_WTMP n ''; # The debian version lags behind the upstream version and also contains # a debian-specific suffix. We only fetch the debian repository to get the # default.script debianVersion = "1.30.1-6"; debianSource = fetchFromGitLab { domain = "salsa.debian.org"; owner = "installer-team"; repo = "busybox"; rev = "debian/1%${debianVersion}"; sha256 = "sha256-6r0RXtmqGXtJbvLSD1Ma1xpqR8oXL2bBKaUE/cSENL8="; }; debianDispatcherScript = "${debianSource}/debian/tree/udhcpc/etc/udhcpc/default.script"; outDispatchPath = "$out/default.script"; pname = "busybox"; version = "1.37.0"; in stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: { inherit pname version; # Note to whoever is updating busybox: please verify that: # nix-build pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix -A test # still builds after the update. src = fetchurl { url = "https://busybox.net/downloads/${pname}-${version}.tar.bz2"; sha256 = "sha256-MxHf8y50ZJn03w1d8E1+s5Y4LX4Qi7klDntRm4NwQ6Q="; }; hardeningDisable = [ "format" ] ++ lib.optionals enableStatic [ "fortify" ]; patches = [ # Allow BusyBox to be invoked as "-busybox". This is # necessary when it's run from the Nix store as -busybox during # stdenv bootstrap. ./busybox-in-store.patch # Fix aarch64 build failure: sha1_process_block64_shaNI is x86-specific # https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2024-September/090943.html ./fix-aarch64-sha1.patch # archival: disallow path traversals (CVE-2023-39810) (fetchpatch { name = "CVE-2023-39810.patch"; url = "https://git.busybox.net/busybox/patch/?id=9a8796436b9b0641e13480811902ea2ac57881d3"; hash = "sha256-pOARbCwiucrkNITBoOMpLF3GniYvJiyBeBi2/Aw2JY8="; }) # tar: strip unsafe hardlink components - GNU tar does the same (fetchpatch { name = "CVE-2026-26157_CVE-2026-26158.patch"; url = "https://git.busybox.net/busybox/patch/?id=3fb6b31c716669e12f75a2accd31bb7685b1a1cb"; excludes = [ "networking/httpd_ratelimit_cgi.c" ]; # New since release. hash = "sha256-Msm9sDZrVx7ofunnvnTS73SPKUUpR3Tv5xZ/wBd+rts="; }) # tar: only strip unsafe components from hardlinks, not symlinks # fix issue introduced by the previous patch (CVE-2026-26157_CVE-2026-26158.patch) (fetchpatch { name = "CVE-2026-26157_CVE-2026-26158-2.patch"; url = "https://github.com/vda-linux/busybox_mirror/commit/599f5dd8fac390c18b79cba4c14c334957605dae.patch"; hash = "sha256-go/KHSsuMSm21nC0yvKEtAQs8Jnjjqdcs5i8RWBGwT4="; }) # syslogd: fix writing to local log file # https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2024-October/090969.html (fetchpatch { url = "https://hg.slitaz.org/wok/raw-file/1cba565dc2a9/busybox/stuff/busybox-1.37-fix-syslogd.patch"; hash = "sha256-NZRctLv1CpTfnR6+CA890YY8ljBQLGkkselyP5/TnsQ="; }) # https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2026-March/092010.html ./build-system-buffer-overflow.patch # [PATCH v2 1/1] wget: don't allow control characters or spaces in the URL # https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2025-November/091840.html ./CVE-2025-60876.patch ] ++ lib.optional (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform) ./clang-cross.patch; separateDebugInfo = true; postPatch = "patchShebangs ."; configurePhase = '' export KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP=1 make ${if enableMinimal then "allnoconfig" else "defconfig"} ${configParser} cat << EOF | parseconfig CONFIG_PREFIX "$out" CONFIG_INSTALL_NO_USR y CONFIG_LFS y # More features for modprobe. ${lib.optionalString (!enableMinimal) '' CONFIG_FEATURE_MODPROBE_BLACKLIST y CONFIG_FEATURE_MODUTILS_ALIAS y CONFIG_FEATURE_MODUTILS_SYMBOLS y CONFIG_MODPROBE_SMALL n ''} ${lib.optionalString enableStatic '' CONFIG_STATIC y ''} ${lib.optionalString (!enableAppletSymlinks) '' CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_DONT y CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS n ''} # Use the external mount.cifs program. CONFIG_FEATURE_MOUNT_CIFS n CONFIG_FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS y # Set paths for console fonts. CONFIG_DEFAULT_SETFONT_DIR "/etc/kbd" # Bump from 4KB, much faster I/O CONFIG_FEATURE_COPYBUF_KB 64 # Doesn't build with current kernel headers. # https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15934 CONFIG_TC n # Set the path for the udhcpc script CONFIG_UDHCPC_DEFAULT_SCRIPT "${outDispatchPath}" ${extraConfig} CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX "${stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}" ${libcConfig} EOF make oldconfig runHook postConfigure ''; postConfigure = lib.optionalString (useMusl && stdenv.hostPlatform.libc != "musl") '' makeFlagsArray+=("CC=${stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc -isystem ${musl.dev}/include -B${musl}/lib -L${musl}/lib") ''; makeFlags = [ "SKIP_STRIP=y" ]; postInstall = '' sed -e ' 1 a busybox() { '$out'/bin/busybox "$@"; }\ logger() { '$out'/bin/logger "$@"; }\ ' ${debianDispatcherScript} > ${outDispatchPath} sed -i 's|/sbin/resolvconf|"$(busybox which resolvconf)"|g' ${outDispatchPath} chmod 555 ${outDispatchPath} HOST_PATH=$out/bin patchShebangs --host ${outDispatchPath} ''; strictDeps = true; depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ]; buildInputs = lib.optionals (enableStatic && !useMusl && stdenv.cc.libc ? static) [ stdenv.cc.libc stdenv.cc.libc.static ]; enableParallelBuilding = true; doCheck = false; # Takes a while, requires extra dependencies passthru = { shellPath = "/bin/ash"; tests.withCheck = finalAttrs.finalPackage.overrideAttrs (_: { doCheck = true; nativeCheckInputs = [ hostname zip which simple-http-server ]; preCheck = '' # Replace hard-coded dependencies on /bin sed -i 's|/bin/date|${lib.getExe' coreutils "date"}|' testsuite/date/date-works-1 # wget tests rely on network access, use simple-http-server instead simple-http-server --index & sed -i 's|http://www.google.com|http://127.0.0.1:8000|' testsuite/wget/* skip-files() { for file in "$@"; do echo "echo SKIPPED $file; exit 0" > $file done } skip-testcase() { sed -i "s@testing \"$2\"@echo SKIPPED $2 || testing \"$2\"@" "$1" } # Skip known-broken tests export SKIP_KNOWN_BUGS=y # There are some semi-expected locale-related issues, disable tests that rely on it export CONFIG_UNICODE_USING_LOCALE=y # DISABLE SOME TESTS # TODO(balsoft): fix the tests instead of skipping pushd testsuite # Weird failures, may or may not be related to locales skip-files du/du-{h,k,l}-works # Relies on a default PATH (/bin/ls in particular) skip-files which/which-uses-default-path # Hangs indefinitely if run from sandbox skip-files md5sum.tests # Doesn't work with coreutils's "false" skip-testcase start-stop-daemon.tests "start-stop-daemon with both -x and -a" # Relies on /usr/bin skip-testcase cpio.tests "cpio -p with absolute paths" # Relies on suid/guid bits skip-testcase cpio.tests "cpio restores suid/sgid bits" popd ''; }); }; meta = { description = "Tiny versions of common UNIX utilities in a single small executable"; homepage = "https://busybox.net/"; license = lib.licenses.gpl2Only; mainProgram = "busybox"; maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ TethysSvensson qyliss ]; teams = [ lib.teams.security-review ]; platforms = lib.platforms.linux; priority = 15; # below systemd (halt, init, poweroff, reboot) and coreutils identifiers.cpeParts = lib.meta.cpeFullVersionWithVendor "busybox" version; }; })