Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Medium

Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-42374

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

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2021-42374
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 06:57 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-42374

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Nov 2021, 21:15 UTC

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

osv:CVE-2021-42374
Complete source record
{
  "id": "f34c9e45c6ae6944c25062136248c7bbb9b1f0c1bca96c993f360148d9350921",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-42374",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-42374",
    "summary": "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",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-42374",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-42374",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-42374"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/mirror/busybox",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "ceaffde51163394c47fec34dac8663ae8152a699"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "bcc5b0e6caca6c7602a6a41faa5f980292e0fbc5"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.27.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.33.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1_33_1",
            "1_33_0",
            "1_32_0",
            "1_31_0",
            "1_30_0",
            "1_29_0",
            "1_28_0",
            "1_27_0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42374.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:46.880898480Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://claroty.com/team82/research/unboxing-busybox-14-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-jfrog",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00012.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6T2TURBYYJGBMQTTN2DSOAIQGP7WCPGV/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQXGOGWBIYWOIVXJVRKHZR34UMEHQBXS/",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211223-0002/",
        "https://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "33"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "33"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "34"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "34"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-42374",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436432,
  "published_at": "2021-11-15T21:15:07.54+00:00"
}