CVE-2021-40400

Publication date 14 April 2022

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.3 · Critical

Score breakdown

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the RS-274X aperture macro outline primitive functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd) and the forked version of Gerbv (commit d7f42a9a). A specially-crafted Gerber file can lead to information disclosure. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gerbv 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.8.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.7.0-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.6.1-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.6.0-1ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.3 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H