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CVE-2019-20009

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU LibreDWG before 0.93. Crafted input will lead to an attempted excessive memory allocation in dwg_decode_SPLINE_private in dwg.spec.

Affected products

• GNU LibreDWG: before 0.9.3 — fixed in 0.9.3
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU LibreDWG 0.9.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00033.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00045.html
• https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/compare/0.9.2...0.9.3
• https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/issues/176
• https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/issues/176#issue-541977765
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00033.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00045.html
• https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/compare/0.9.2...0.9.3
• https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/issues/176
• https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/issues/176#issue-541977765

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