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 allows arbitrary write anywhere in the programs memory. https://gist.github.com/untaman/cb58123fe89fc65e3984165db5d40933
Created man2html tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 2126813] Affects: fedora-all [bug 2126814]
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