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SUSE: CVE-2021-42379: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2021-42379: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/15/2021
Created
01/25/2022
Added
01/21/2022
Modified
11/14/2022

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 next_input_file function

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-busybox
  • suse-upgrade-busybox-static
  • suse-upgrade-busybox-testsuite
  • suse-upgrade-busybox-warewulf3

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