Medium
Security advisory
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
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-42374
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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
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"method": "structured",
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"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/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-11-15T21:15:07.54+00:00"
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