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CVE-2021-40401

Publication date 4 February 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.6 · High

Score breakdown

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the RS-274X aperture definition tokenization functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd) and Gerbv forked 2.7.1. A specially-crafted gerber file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gerbv 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.7.0-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.6 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H