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 evaluate function
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
busybox busybox
unspecified to < 1.34.0affected
References
- https://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQXGOGWBIYWOIVXJVRKHZR34UMEHQBXS/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6T2TURBYYJGBMQTTN2DSOAIQGP7WCPGV/ ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211223-0002/ ↗
- https://claroty.com/team82/research/unboxing-busybox-14-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-jfrog ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00012.html ↗