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OESA-2024-2441 (CVE-2023-42364)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2024-11-22 11:07 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:07 – Source website

Summary

busybox security update

Details

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. It provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2023-42364)

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in BusyBox v.1.36.1 via a crafted awk pattern in the awk.c copyvar function.(CVE-2023-42365)

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42364	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42365	ADVISORY

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:35

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-10 20:28 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-416 - Use After Free

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15868
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

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CVE-2023-42365 (GCVE-0-2023-42365)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:35

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in BusyBox v.1.36.1 via a crafted awk pattern in the awk.c copyvar function.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15871
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

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