UBUNTU-CVE-2021-40403

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-40403

    Published: 4 Feb 2022Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-40403
    Aliases:
    USN-6209-1

    Summary:

    Details: An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the pick-and-place rotation parsing functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd), and Gerbv forked 2.8.0. A specially-crafted pick-and-place file can exploit the missing initialization of a structure to leak memory contents. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-40403, https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1417, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6209-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40403

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gerbv

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.6.0-1ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    2.6.0-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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