PT-2021-5547

CVE-2021-42385

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Published

2021-11-15

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Updated

2026-10-30

Description by

CVSS 2.0
7.6
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions BusyBox (affected versions not specified)
Description A use-after-free issue in BusyBox's awk applet can lead to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the evaluate function. This allows a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
AZL-6351
CLEANSTART-2026-XI12669
DLA-4019-1
MGASA-2021-0533
OESA-2021-1449
OPENSUSE-SU-2022:0135-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2022_0135-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3959-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11738-1
SUSE-SU-2022:0135-1
SUSE-SU-2022:0135-2
SUSE-SU-2022:3959-1
SUSE-SU-2022:4253-1
USN-5179-1
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