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Ubuntu: USN-5957-1 (CVE-2021-21899): LibreCAD vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 19, 2021
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

A code execution vulnerability exists in the dwgCompressor::copyCompBytes21 functionality of LibreCad libdxfrw 2.2.0-rc2-19-ge02f3580. A specially-crafted .dwg file can lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-librecadubuntu-upgrade-librecad
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