CVE-2021-40403

Name	CVE-2021-40403
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-3210-1, DSA-5306-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
gerbv (PTS)	bullseye (security), bullseye	2.7.0-2+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm	2.9.6-1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.10.0-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
gerbv	source	buster	2.7.0-1+deb10u2	DLA-3210-1
gerbv	source	bullseye	2.7.0-2+deb11u2	DSA-5306-1
gerbv	source	(unstable)	2.9.2-1

Notes

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1417
https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv/issues/82
Fixed by: https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv/commit/c32c6f9c0b5d3b0ecc33de21d8532de6c2df5878 (v2.9.1-rc.1)