CVE-2022-0496

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A vulnerbiility was found in Openscad, where a DXF-format drawing with particular (not necessarily malformed!) properties may cause an out-of-bounds memory access when imported using import().

Affected products

openscad: before 2022-02-04 — fixed in 2022-02-04

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: openscad 2022-02-04. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2050695
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/commit/00a4692989c4e2f191525f73f24ad8727bacdf41
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/commit/770e3234cbfe66edbc0333f796b46d36a74aa652
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4037
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2050695
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/commit/00a4692989c4e2f191525f73f24ad8727bacdf41
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/commit/770e3234cbfe66edbc0333f796b46d36a74aa652
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4037

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