CVE-2021-42376
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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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
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42376.html
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-42376
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:1.35.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:1.35.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:1.35.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:1.35.0-1 |
| arch | fixed | 1.34.1-1 | |
| sles | affected | |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.