Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
CVE-2021-25177
Summary
An issue was discovered in Open Design Alliance Drawings SDK before 2021.11. A Type Confusion issue exists when rendering malformed .DXF and .DWG files. This can allow attackers to cause a crash, potentially enabling a denial of service attack (Crash, Exit, or Restart).
- LOW
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published
