PT-2021-5548

CVE-2021-42378

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Published

2021-11-15

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Updated

2025-11-03

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.2
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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 getvar i function. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
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-6345
DLA-4019-1
MGASA-2021-0533
OESA-2021-1449
OPENSUSE-SU-2022:0135-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2022_0135-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3959-1
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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