CVE-2021-40403

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the pick-and-place rotation parsing functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd), and Gerbv forked 2.8.0. A specially-crafted pick-and-place file can exploit the missing initialization of a structure to leak memory contents. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.3 Medium

Status

Modified - talos-cna@cisco.com

Published

2022-02-04

Last modified

2025-04-15

Weaknesses

CWE-456, CWE-909

Affected products

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

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PTGBC37N2FV7NKOWFVCFMP…
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1417
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5306