vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-42374: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 15, 2021
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An out-of-bounds heap read in Busybox's unlzma applet leads to information leak and denial of service when crafted LZMA-compressed input is decompressed. This can be triggered by any applet/format that

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-busybox
Title
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