CVE-2021-42376

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A NULL pointer dereference in Busybox's hush applet leads to denial of service when processing a crafted shell command, due to missing validation after a \x03 delimiter character. This may be used for DoS under very rare conditions of filtered command input.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42376.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-42376

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.35.0-1
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.35.0-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.35.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.35.0-1
arch archfixed1.34.1-1
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.