CVE-2020-21839 (GCVE-0-2020-21839)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-17 20:55 – Updated: 2026-07-09 00:10
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Summary
An issue was discovered in GNU LibreDWG 0.10. Crafted input will lead to an memory leak in dwg_decode_eed ../../src/decode.c:3638.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
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