A use-after-free in awk leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the nvalloc function
Read more: "Unboxing Busybox: 14 Vulnerabilities Uncovered by Claroty, JFrog"
CVE-2021-42386
Busybox
Linux Utilities
6.6
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