CVE-2026-62250CWE-400CWE-835denial-of-service

LibreDWG: unbounded allocation in pre-R13 DWG entity decoding

Medium · published October 30, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
—
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 because `end` equals `dat->size`, and the no-advance check compares against `oldpos` saved before the loop instead of the previous iteration. This leaves repeated allocation of `dwg->object` entries until allocation fails or the process is OOM-killed, not merely a constant-memory CPU hang. The defect remains after the clamping and no-progress changes associated with the earlier issue 1131. Applications and tools calling `dwg_read_file()` on untrusted files, including `dwg2dxf`, `dwgread` and `dwg2svg`, can suffer denial of service when a user or automated pipeline opens a malformed file; no attacker credentials are required. This issue is fixed in repository nightly version 0.14.8413.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
Not scored
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2026-10-30T20:37Z
Timeline
  • 30 OCT 20:37Z
    LibreDWG: unbounded allocation in pre-R13 DWG entity decoding
    cvelistv5
  • 30 OCT 20:37Z
    LibreDWG: unbounded allocation in pre-R13 DWG entity decoding
    cvelistv5