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
2022-09-09T18:15:09.247Z
Modified
2026-03-14T11:08:54.646498Z
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, fdnextsize, bknextsize 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

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