CVE-2021-28831

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28831
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-28831.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-28831
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-03-19T05:15:13.150Z
Modified
2026-07-01T11:54:32.725803913Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

decompressgunzip.c in BusyBox through 1.32.1 mishandles the error bit on the huftbuild result pointer, with a resultant invalid free or segmentation fault, via malformed gzip data.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "32"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "33"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "34"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/busybox

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/busybox
Events
Introduced
fb957125d8aa83c9df6e54292327983a51ee7ffd
Last affected
d811a8cd01cb105869de477317839929a3444312
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.32.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.32.1"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

Other
1_32_0
1_32_1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-28831.json"