CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-40648

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2022-09-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-09-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

In man2html 1.6g, a filename can be created to overwrite the previous size parameter of the next chunk and the fd, bk, fd_nextsize, bk_nextsize of the current chunk. The next chunk is then freed later on, causing a freeing of an arbitrary amount of memory.

Affected configurations

• man2html project man2html 1.6g

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References