debian · CVE-2021-42378

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:17:19 GMT

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CVE-2021-42378 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (busybox), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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_i function

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