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 nvalloc function
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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Debian DLA |
DLA-4019-1 | busybox security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2021-29357 | 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 nvalloc function |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-5179-1 | BusyBox vulnerabilities |
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Solution
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Workaround
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: JFROG
Published:
Updated: 2025-04-23T19:22:52.984Z
Reserved: 2021-10-14T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2021-42386
Updated: 2024-08-04T03:30:38.449Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-11-15T21:15:08.173
Modified: 2025-04-23T20:15:35.460
Link: CVE-2021-42386
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DLA
EUVD
Ubuntu USN