CVE-2021-40648

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40648
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-40648.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-40648
Downstream
Published
2022-09-09T18:15:09Z
Modified
2026-03-14T11:08:54Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-40648.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events":  [
            {
                "introduced":  "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected":  "1.6g"
            }
        ]
    }
]