CVE-2023-26157 — Versions of the package libredwg before 0

Versions of the package libredwg before 0.12.5.6384 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to an out-of-bounds read involving section->num_pages in decode_r2007.c.

01What is this vulnerability?

Versions of the package libredwg before 0.12.5.6384 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to an out-of-bounds read involving section->num_pages in decode_r2007.c.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / libredwg	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-01-02T05:00:02.461Z
• Last modified: 2024-11-14T19:31:31.880Z

09References

• security.snyk.io — https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREDWG-6070730
• github.com — https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/commit/c8cf03ce4c2315b146caf582ea061c046019…
• github.com — https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/issues/850