Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package busybox  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2204-BUSYBOX-6097631
  • published7 Dec 2023
  • disclosed27 Nov 2023

Introduced: 27 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-42364  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:22.04.

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 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.