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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-42386

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 f...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 busybox

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.35.0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 busybox

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.35.0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 busybox

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.35.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org