CVE-2021-39176
7.5 HIGHdetect-character-encoding is a package for detecting character encoding using ICU
Published: 2021-08-31 · Last updated: 2026-06-17
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-401
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| detect-character-encoding_project | detect-character-encoding |
Description
detect-character-encoding is a package for detecting character encoding using ICU. In detect-character-encoding v0.3.0 and earlier, allocated memory is not released. The problem has been patched in detect-character-encoding v0.3.1.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39176
- [Patch]https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/commit/d44356927b92e3b13e178071bf6d7c671766f588
- [Patch]https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/pull/6
- [Other]https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.3.1
- [Patch]https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/security/advisories/GHSA-5rwj-j5m3-3chj
- [Patch]https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/commit/d44356927b92e3b13e178071bf6d7c671766f588
- [Patch]https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/pull/6
- [Other]https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.3.1
- [Patch]https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/security/advisories/GHSA-5rwj-j5m3-3chj
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