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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-42376: NULL Pointer Dereference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-42376: NULL Pointer Dereference

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
10/02/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-busybox

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