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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-42377: Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-42377: Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/15/2021
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

An attacker-controlled pointer free in Busybox's hush applet leads to denial of service and possible code execution when processing a crafted shell command, due to the shell mishandling the &&& string. This may be used for remote code execution under rare conditions of filtered command input.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-busybox

References

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