High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 13, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-21813
CVE-2021-21813
Description
Within the function HandleFileArg the argument filepattern is under control of the user who passes it in from the command line. filepattern is passed directly to memcpy copying the path provided by the user into a staticly sized buffer without any length checks resulting in a stack-buffer overflow.
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References
1- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1280nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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