Double Free Affecting libredwg package, versions [,0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREDWG-2368262
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14524  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libredwg to version 0.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free dwg_decode_eed in decode.c in GNU LibreDWG before 0.6 leads to a double free (in dwg_free_eed in free.c) because it does not properly manage the obj->eed value after a free occurs.

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