CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-33480

Use After Free

Published: Nov 17, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

An use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in gocr through 0.53-20200802 in context_correction() in pgm2asc.c.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Optical_character_recognition Optical_character_recognition_project * 0.53-20200802 (including)
Gocr Ubuntu bionic *
Gocr Ubuntu focal *
Gocr Ubuntu groovy *
Gocr Ubuntu hirsute *
Gocr Ubuntu impish *
Gocr Ubuntu kinetic *
Gocr Ubuntu lunar *
Gocr Ubuntu mantic *
Gocr Ubuntu oracular *
Gocr Ubuntu trusty *
Gocr Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References