CVE-2021-40401

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the RS-274X aperture definition tokenization functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd) and Gerbv forked 2.7.1. A specially-crafted gerber file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Score

CVSS 3.0 10.0 Critical

Status

Modified - talos-cna@cisco.com

Published

2022-02-04

Last modified

2025-04-15

Weaknesses

CWE-252

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Gerbv (Gerbv Project)

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TUM5GIUZJ7AVHVCXDZW6ZV…
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1415
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5306