CVE-2021-42374MediumMicrosoft CVSS 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-42374

Published
November 18, 2021
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products4

  • azl3 busybox 1.35.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 busybox 1.36.1-12 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 busybox 1.35.0-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cm1 busybox 1.34.1-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 3 updates

3 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update1.34.1-1
—Security Update1.35.0-1
—Security Update1.35.1-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-42374

EchelonGraph score
5.3 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

An out-of-bounds heap read in Busybox's unlzma applet leads to information leak and denial of service when crafted LZMA-compressed input is decompressed. This can be triggered by any applet/format that

Published by JFrog, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-42374, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)