Description
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 evaluate function
Published: 2021-11-15
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-29354 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 evaluate function
History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Busybox Busybox
Fedoraproject Fedora
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: JFROG

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-23T19:23:16.547Z

Reserved: 2021-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-42383

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:30:38.425Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-15T21:15:08.017

Modified: 2025-04-23T20:15:34.930

Link: CVE-2021-42383

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-42383 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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