{"action":"Upgrade man2html to 1.6g-16 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"1.6g-16","introduced":"0"}],"component":"man2html","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:14","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["1.6g-16"],"id":"tcs_01M5NFZC1EMK0J1WN51E82V8G1","modified_at":"2026-10-23T18:03:33.156419110Z","published_at":"2022-09-09T18:15:09.197Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-40647","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-40647"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":5.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2021-40647#Debian:14/man2html","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-40647"}],"summary":"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 pa"}