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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-42382: Use After Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-42382: Use After Free

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/15/2021
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

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

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-busybox

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