CVE-2021-42384
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-15 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 03:30
Severity
Summary
A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the handle_special function
References
SourceURLTags
reefs@jfrog.comhttps://claroty.com/team82/research/unboxing-busybox-14-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-jfrog
reefs@jfrog.comhttps://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/Third Party Advisory
reefs@jfrog.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6T2TURBYYJGBMQTTN2DSOAIQGP7WCPGV/
reefs@jfrog.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQXGOGWBIYWOIVXJVRKHZR34UMEHQBXS/
reefs@jfrog.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211223-0002/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
busyboxbusybox
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