Medium severity6.3NVD Advisory· Published Feb 4, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-40403
CVE-2021-40403
Description
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.
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Affected products
2- Gerbv/Gerbvdescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1417nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5306nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PTGBC37N2FV7NKOWFVCFMPAFYEPHSB7C/nvd
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