CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.
Public Exploit Signal
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CVE
CVE-2021-40648
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.32%
Original NVD 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.
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