Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Busybox's awk Applet: Denial of Service and Potential Code Execution

CVE-2021-42382 · HIGH Severity

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

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 getvar_s function

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