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CVE-2021-40648

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2022-09-09 Modified: 2026-06-17

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 Platforms

Man2Html Project Man2Html

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References