UBUNTU-CVE-2021-40647

In man2html 1.6g, a specific string being read in from a file will overwrite the size parameter in the top chunk of the heap. This at least causes the program to segmentation abort if the heap size parameter isn't aligned correctly. In version before GLIBC version 2.29 and aligned correctly, it...

File(1) 4.13 - Command File_PrintF Integer Underflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23021/info The file1 command is prone to an integer-underflow vulnerability because the command fails to adequately handle user-supplied data. An attacker can leverage this issue to corrupt heap memory and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of ...