What is CVE-2020-21533?

CVE-2020-21533 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xfig Project Fig2dev, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-09-16.

How severe is CVE-2020-21533?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Xfig Project Fig2dev

CVE-2020-21533

fig2dev 3.2.7b contains a stack buffer overflow in the read_textobject function in read.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.009 (55.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Xfig_project Fig2dev — versions 3.2.7
Debian Debian_linux — versions 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-21533?: CVE-2020-21533 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xfig Project Fig2dev, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-09-16.
How severe is CVE-2020-21533?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.