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DEBIAN-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 Gerb...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 gerbv

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9.2-1"}]}]

Debian:13 gerbv

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9.2-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org