Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gerbv (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-GERBV-11743806
- published10 Aug 2025
- disclosed19 Nov 2021
Introduced: 19 Nov 2021
CVE-2021-40391 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:14.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gerbv package and not the gerbv package as distributed by Debian.
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the drill format T-code tool number functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0, dev (commit b5f1eacd), and the forked version of Gerbv (commit 71493260). A specially-crafted drill file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-40391
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TUM5GIUZJ7AVHVCXDZW6ZVCAPV2ISN47/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00003.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TUM5GIUZJ7AVHVCXDZW6ZVCAPV2ISN47/
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1402