Information Exposure Affecting gerbv/gerbv package, versions [,2.9.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GERBVGERBV-2936435
  • published28 Jun 2022
  • disclosed28 Jun 2022
  • creditClaudio Bozzato

Introduced: 28 Jun 2022

CVE-2021-40403  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gerbv/gerbv to version 2.9.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure via the pick-and-place rotation parsing functionality, due to missing initialization of a structure. This vulnerability could be exploited by sending a specially-crafted pick-and-place file in order to leak memory contents.

CVSS Scores

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