Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package busybox  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-BUSYBOX-6097639
  • published7 Dec 2023
  • disclosed27 Nov 2023

Introduced: 27 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-42366  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream busybox package and not the busybox package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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