CVE-2021-42382
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
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 getvar_s function
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-2021-42382.html
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-42382
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:1.35.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:1.30.1-6+deb11u1 |
| 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.