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CVE-2021-38172

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

perM 0.4.0 has a Buffer Overflow related to strncpy. (Debian initially fixed this in 0.4.0-7.)

Affected products

• Debian Perm: 0.4.0

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993019
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2021/08/msg00016.html
• https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/perm.html
• https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/perm/-/commits/master/
• https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/perm
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993019
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2021/08/msg00016.html
• https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/perm.html
• https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/perm/-/commits/master/
• https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/perm

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