CVE-2023-36272
HighCVSS 8.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk51th percentile - higher than 51% of all known CVEs
Summary
Versions of LibreDWG from 0.10 to 0.12.5 were found to contain a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the function bit_utf8_to_TU in bits.c.
Risk Assessment
Heap buffer overflow can lead to arbitrary code execution, posing a significant threat to the application's security and user data.
Recommendation
It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version of LibreDWG to mitigate this vulnerability.
Other vulnerabilities in LibreDWG
See all- CVE-2026-62254Medium
LibreDWG is a free C library to read and write DWG files. Prior to 0.14, a specially crafted R13-R2000 DWG can trigger algorithmic resource exhaustion in decode_R13_R2000 in src/decode.c. The class-decoding loop performs realloc on every iteration without a sanity check on num_classes; manipulating that field forces an extremely slow allocation loop and denial of service when the file is parsed. Running the parser in a sandbox with memory limits is a workaround rather than a remediation. This issue is fixed in version 0.14.
- CVE-2026-62250Medium
LibreDWG is a free C library to read and write DWG files. Prior to 0.14.8413, a crafted pre-R13 DWG can make decode_preR13_entities() in src/decode.c enter a nonterminating loop that allocates a new object each iteration. decode_preR13 in src/decode_r11.c computes size from the raw file-controlled entities_start and entities_end header bounds; the callee clamps end to dat->size but never recalculates size. At end of input, bit_read_RC and bit_read_RS stop advancing dat->byte, the overflow guard fails, and the no-advance check compares against oldpos saved before the loop. This leaves repeated allocation of dwg->object entries until allocation fails or the process is OOM-killed. The defect is fixed in version 0.14.8413.
- CVE-2026-54610Low
LibreDWG is a free C library to read and write DWG files. Prior to 0.14, `bit_TV_to_utf8()` in `src/bits.c` can write to the caller-provided `src` buffer despite accepting const input. On an `iconv()` error other than `E2BIG`, the function frees its output buffer and passes the original input alias to `bit_u_expand()`, which can cause a segmentation fault and denial of service or unexpected modification of mutable input.
- CVE-2023-36274High
LibreDWG versions 0.11 to 0.12.5 were found to contain a heap buffer overflow in the function bit_write_TF in bits.c.
- CVE-2023-36273High
Version 0.12.5 of LibreDWG was found to contain a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the function bit_calc_CRC in bits.c.
- CVE-2023-36271High
LibreDWG versions 0.10 to 0.12.5 were found to contain a heap buffer overflow in the function bit_wcs2nlen at bits.c.
Original NVD description (English source)
LibreDWG v0.10 to v0.12.5 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the function bit_utf8_to_TU at bits.c.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

