High
Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-20915
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- 31 Oct 2026, 12:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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