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CVE-2023-42364

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42364

Severity

5.5

Medium

CVSS V3

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Description

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

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42364

Affected packages


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