Apparently I credited the wrong person.
It was actually RĂ©mi Rampin <[email protected]> that provided the patch.

On 24 August 2016 at 11:28, Bruno Chevalier <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This is a patch for hexdump and other applications making use of dump.c.
> It did not properly escape format strings.
>
> Example of a format string that failed:
> hexdump -n 6 -e '6/1 "\\x%02x\t\\"' some_file
>
> See also this bug report:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776096
> On that link we can find a patch supplied by Sergey Romanov <
> [email protected]>, which I ported to busybox.
>
> I have also fixed the conversion of the formfeed character which was being
> converted to a backspace character.
>
>
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