Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libredwg package, versions [,0.11.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.06% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREDWG-2368296
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 May 2021

CVE-2020-21841  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libredwg to version 0.11.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. A heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exits in GNU LibreDWG 0.10 via bit_read_B ../../src/bits.c:135.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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