diff --git a/script/get-generic-sys-util/_cm.json b/script/get-generic-sys-util/_cm.json
index 39e1322d8..6c59d6b06 100644
--- a/script/get-generic-sys-util/_cm.json
+++ b/script/get-generic-sys-util/_cm.json
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
       "env": {
         "CM_SYS_UTIL_NAME": "libbz2_dev",
         "CM_SYS_UTIL_VERSION_CMD": "bzcat --version",
-        "CM_SYS_UTIL_VERSION_RE": "Version ([A-Za-z0-9]+(\\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)+)"
+        "CM_SYS_UTIL_VERSION_RE": "\\b\\d+\\.\\d+(?:\\.\\d+)?\\b"
       },
       "state": {
         "libbz2_dev": {
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@
       "env": {
         "CM_SYS_UTIL_NAME": "md5sha1sum",
         "CM_SYS_UTIL_VERSION_CMD": "md5sum --version",
-        "CM_SYS_UTIL_VERSION_RE": "md5sum \\(GNU coreutils\\) ([\\d.]+)"
+        "CM_SYS_UTIL_VERSION_RE": "\\b\\d+\\.\\d+(?:\\.\\d+)?\\b"
       },
       "state": {
         "md5sha1sum": {