What is GHSA-pp62-53mh-6rf2?

GHSA-pp62-53mh-6rf2 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. A heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exits in GNU LibreDWG 0.10 via bit_search_sentinel ../...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-pp62-53mh-6rf2 cover?

GHSA-pp62-53mh-6rf2 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2020-21840. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-pp62-53mh-6rf2?

GHSA-pp62-53mh-6rf2 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-pp62-53mh-6rf2HighCVSS 8.8

A heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exits in GNU LibreDWG 0.10 via bit_search_sentinel ../...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 24, 2022

Last Modified

July 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-21840 →

📋 Description

A heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exits in GNU LibreDWG 0.10 via bit_search_sentinel ../../src/bits.c:1985.

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-21840
https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/issues/188#issuecomment-574493513
http://gnu.com
http://libredwg.com
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pp62-53mh-6rf2