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Mageia 8 MGASA-2022-0458 Critical: Busybox Use-After-Free Attack

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent enhancements to Busybox packages rectify a severe vulnerability in Mageia, pertaining to threats of service interruption and remote code execution.
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

Summary

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. (CVE-2022-30065)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31213

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-30065

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical attack busybox use-after-free Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/busybox-1.34.1-1.2.mga8

Severity
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Critical

Publication date: 13 Dec 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0458.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-30065

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical attack busybox use-after-free Mageia

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