CVE-2021-40648

MEDIUM Year: 2021
CVSS v3 Score
5.5
Medium
Weakness Type
CWE-20
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Vulnerability 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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