Bug 2088233 (CVE-2022-30065)

Summary: CVE-2022-30065 busybox: A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Sandipan Roy <saroy>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: admiller, davide, dvlasenk, epel-packagers-sig, spotrh
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A flaw was found in BusyBox. It did not properly sanitize while processing a crafted awk pattern, leading to possible code execution.
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Bug Depends On: 2089281, 2089282    
Bug Blocks: 2088235    

Description Sandipan Roy 2022-05-19 04:06:12 UTC
A use-after-free in Busybox 1.35-x's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the copyvar function.

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=14781

Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2022-05-23 10:54:49 UTC
Created busybox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-34 [bug 2089282]
Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2089281]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-05-23 13:43:26 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-30065