Access of Uninitialized Pointer The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gerbv (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-GERBV-11743818
- published10 Aug 2025
- disclosed24 Aug 2023
Introduced: 24 Aug 2023
CVE-2023-4508 (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.
A user able to control file input to Gerbv, between versions 2.4.0 and 2.10.0, can cause a crash and cause denial-of-service with a specially crafted Gerber RS-274X file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-4508
- https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv/commit/dfb5aac533a3f9e8ccd93ca217a753258cba4fe5
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00040.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-4508
- https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv/commit/5517e22250e935dc7f86f64ad414aeae3dbcb36a
- https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv/issues/191