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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-42366: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 27, 2023
Added
Mar 21, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A heap-buffer-overflow was discovered in BusyBox v.1.36.1 in the next_token function at awk.c:1159.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-busybox
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