CVE-2021-40403
MEDIUMGerbv 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 - Information Disclosure via Pick-and-Place Rotation Parsing
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PTGBC37N2FV7NKOWFVCFMPAFYEPHSB7C/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5306
Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1417
Scores
CVSS v3
6.3
EPSS
0.0111
EPSS Percentile
61.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-909
CWE-456
Status
published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux
11.0
fedoraproject/fedora
36
gerbv_project/gerbv
2.7.0
gerbv_project/gerbv
2.8.0 forked_dev
Published
Feb 04, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026