CVE-2021-28831

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
2025-11-14T11:35:35.566067Z
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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/busybox

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/busybox
Events
Introduced
fb957125d8aa83c9df6e54292327983a51ee7ffd
Last affected
d811a8cd01cb105869de477317839929a3444312

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"