CVE-2021-42375

Name	CVE-2021-42375
Description	An incorrect handling of a special element in Busybox's 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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	low
Debian Bugs	999567

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
busybox (PTS)	stretch	1:1.22.0-19	vulnerable
	stretch (security)	1:1.22.0-19+deb9u2	vulnerable
	buster	1:1.30.1-4	vulnerable
	bullseye	1:1.30.1-6	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid	1:1.30.1-7	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
busybox	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant		999567

https://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact