CVE-2021-40403: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 36 only
• Gerbv Project Gerbv: version 2.7.0 only; version 2.8.0 only

Published 2022-02-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.