CVE-2021-42375

Description

An incorrect handling of a special element in Busyboxs ash applet leads to denial of service when processing a crafted shell command, due to the shell mistaking specific characters for reserved characters. This may be used for DoS under rare conditions of filtered command input.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.061

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2022:4253-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) busybox-1.35.0-4.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:3959-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP4 ) busybox-static-1.35.0-150400.3.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234