Bug 2252027 (CVE-2023-42363)

Summary:	CVE-2023-42363 busybox: use-after-free in awk
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2023-11-29 04:15:41 UTC

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in xasprintf function in xfuncs_printf.c:344 in BusyBox v.1.36.1.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-42363
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15865

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2023-11-29 04:16:00 UTC

Created busybox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2252028]