CVE-2021-42373

Name
CVE-2021-42373
Description
A NULL pointer dereference in Busybox's man applet leads to denial of service when a section name is supplied but no page argument is given
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
N/A https://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/
Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6T2TURBYYJGBMQTTN2DSOAIQGP7WCPGV/
Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQXGOGWBIYWOIVXJVRKHZR34UMEHQBXS/
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211223-0002/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:1.33.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* busybox == None == 1.33.0
cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:1.33.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* busybox == None == 1.33.1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
busybox 3.14-main 1.33.1-r8 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed