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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-20915

An issue was discovered in GNU LibreDWG through 0.9.3. Crafted input will lead to a heap-based buffer over-read in bit_write_TF in bits.c.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:29 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-20915

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Jul 2020, 18:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in GNU LibreDWG through 0.9.3. Crafted input will lead to a heap-based buffer over-read in bit_write_TF in bits.c.

osv:CVE-2019-20915
Complete source record
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