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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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