CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-21831

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.06%

61th percentile - higher than 61% of all known CVEs

Summary

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in GNU LibreDWG version 0.10. The issue occurs in the read_2004_section_handles function in decode.c, potentially leading to crashes or arbitrary code execution.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service, compromising the integrity and availability of systems using LibreDWG.

Recommendation

Immediately update the GNU LibreDWG library to the latest available version that includes a fix for this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in GNU LibreDWG 0.10 via read_2004_section_handles ../../src/decode.c:2637.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS