CVE-2021-40403 (GCVE-0-2021-40403)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-04 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-15 19:11
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
5.8 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-15 18:20 UTC
CWE
- CWE-456 - Missing Initialization of a Variable
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_repor… | |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5306 | vendor-advisory |
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