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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-42375: Other

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-42375: Other

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/15/2021
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

An incorrect handling of a special element in Busybox's ash applet leads to denial of service when processing a crafted shell command, due to the shell mistaking specific characters for reserved characters. This may be used for DoS under rare conditions of filtered command input.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-busybox

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