Resource exhaustion in LibreDWG - CVE-2019-20012
Published: January 20, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU24411
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20012
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in "dwg_decode_HATCH_private" in "dwg.spec". A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
LibreDWG
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2019-20012
Install updates from vendor's website.
LibreDWG - update to 0.9.3