cve/2021/CVE-2021-39176.md

### [CVE-2021-39176](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-39176)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=detect-character-encoding&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=%3C%200.3.1%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-401%3A%20Missing%20Release%20of%20Memory%20after%20Effective%20Lifetime&color=brightgreen)

### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/security/advisories/GHSA-5rwj-j5m3-3chj

#### Github
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