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Ubuntu: USN-5957-1 (CVE-2021-21898): LibreCAD vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5957-1 (CVE-2021-21898): LibreCAD vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/19/2021
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A code execution vulnerability exists in the dwgCompressor::decompress18() functionality of LibreCad libdxfrw 2.2.0-rc2-19-ge02f3580. A specially-crafted .dwg file can lead to an out-of-bounds write. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-librecad

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