Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 27, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-42364
CVE-2023-42364
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.
Affected products
22- osv-coords19 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/busybox-fullpkg:apk/wolfi/busybox-fullpkg:apk/chainguard/busyboxpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/opensuse/busybox-links&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/busybox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/opensuse/busybox&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:apk/wolfi/busybox
< 0+ 18 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.7.7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150700.18.4.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-150400.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-150400.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-150400.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-150400.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-10.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-10.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cginvdExploitVendor Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00012.htmlnvd
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