USN-7422-1: FIS-GT.M vulnerabilities

USN-7422-1: FIS-GT.M vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that FIS-GT.M could incorrectly dereference memory in certain instances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FIS-GT.M to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-44492, CVE-2021-44498, CVE-2021-44508) It was discovered that FIS-GT.M could perform a division by zero due to a lack of input validation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FIS-GT.M to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-44500) It was discovered that FIS-GT.M could be forced to allocate memory of a chosen size through crafted input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to exhaust the available memory of FIS-GT.M, leading to a crash that would result in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-44502) It was discovered that FIS-GT.M could be forced to read from uninitialized memory due to a lack of input validation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FIS-GT.M to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-44506) It was discovered that FIS-GT.M could crash due to an integer underflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-44509, CVE-2021-44510)

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