High
Security advisory
Fluent Bit 1.6.10 has a NULL pointer dereference when an flb_malloc return value is not validated by flb_avro.c or http_server/api/v1/metrics.c.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-27186
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Fluent Bit 1.6.10 has a NULL pointer dereference when an flb_malloc return value is not validated by flb_avro.c or http_server/api/v1/metrics.c.
osv:CVE-2021-27186
Complete source record
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