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CVE-2021-40648

Published: 09/09/2022 Updated: 14/09/2022
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

In man2html 1.6g, a filename can be created to overwrite the previous size parameter of the next chunk and the fd, bk, fd_nextsize, bk_nextsize of the current chunk. The next chunk is then freed later on, causing a freeing of an arbitrary amount of memory.

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #1062069 man2html: CVE-2021-40648 Package: src:man2html; Maintainer for src:man2html is Robert Luberda <robert@debianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:18:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: moreinfo, security, upstream Reply or subscribe to t ...
Debian Bug report logs - #1021738 man2html: CVE-2021-40647 CVE-2021-40648 Package: src:man2html; Maintainer for src:man2html is Robert Luberda <robert@debianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:18:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream Reply or subscribe ...