Use After Free
CVE-2021-44497
Summary
An issue was discovered in FIS GT.M through V7.0-000 (related to the YottaDB code base). Using crafted input, can cause the bounds of a for loop to be miscalculated, which leads to a use after free condition a pointer is pushed into previously free memory by the loop.
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- NETWORK
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- UNCHANGED
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- HIGH
CWE-416 - Use After Free
Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published