CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-42612

Use After Free

Published: May 24, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

A use after free in cleanup_index in index.c in Halibut 1.2 allows an attacker to cause a segmentation fault or possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted text document.

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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.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
Halibut Halibut_project 1.2 (including) 1.2 (including)
Halibut Ubuntu bionic *
Halibut Ubuntu focal *
Halibut Ubuntu impish *
Halibut Ubuntu kinetic *
Halibut Ubuntu lunar *
Halibut Ubuntu mantic *
Halibut Ubuntu oracular *

Potential Mitigations

References