Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU24479

Out-of-bounds read in LibreDWG - CVE-2020-6614

Published: January 22, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU24479

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-6614

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: GNU

Affected software:
LibreDWG

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read in "bfr_read" in decode.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.

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