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CVE-2021-42379

Date: November 14, 2021

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 next_input_file function

Language: C

Severity Score

7.2

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42379

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6T2TURBYYJGBMQTTN2DSOAIQGP7WCPGV/

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-42379

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-42379

Url: https://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211223-0002/

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-42379

Url: https://claroty.com/team82/research/unboxing-busybox-14-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-jfrog

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6T2TURBYYJGBMQTTN2DSOAIQGP7WCPGV/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQXGOGWBIYWOIVXJVRKHZR34UMEHQBXS/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQXGOGWBIYWOIVXJVRKHZR34UMEHQBXS/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-42379

Severity Score

7.2

Weakness Type (CWE)

Use After Free

CWE-416

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.2
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	SINGLE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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