A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in BusyBox v.1.36.1 via a crafted awk pattern in the awk.c copyvar function.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

• Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2023-42365 busybox Fixed in: 1.35.0-r31
• Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42365 busybox Fixed in: 1:1.30.1-6+deb11u1

References

• advisory github.com
• advisory nvd.nist.gov
• web bugs.busybox.net
• web lists.debian.org