github - ghsa-qqqj-6rp2-5pw4

ghsa-qqqj-6rp2-5pw4

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-11-28 00:30

Modified

2025-11-03 21:30

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

A use-after-free vulnerability in BusyBox v.1.36.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted awk pattern in the awk.c evaluate function.

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CVE-2023-42364 (GCVE-0-2023-42364)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-11-27 00:00

Modified

2025-11-03 20:35

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

n/a

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability in BusyBox v.1.36.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted awk pattern in the awk.c evaluate function.

References

URL

Tags

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15868

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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