High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 13, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-21814
CVE-2021-21814
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 strlen to determine the ending location of the char* passed in by the user, no checks are done to see if the passed in char* is longer than the staticly sized buffer data is memcpy‘d into, but after the memcpy a null byte is written to what is assumed to be the end of the buffer to terminate the char*, but without length checks, this null write occurs at an arbitrary offset from the buffer. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.
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1- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1280nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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