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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVE-2019-20013

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in GNU LibreDWG before 0.93. Crafted input will lead to an attempted excessive memory allocation in decode_3dsolid in dwg.spec.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published