Autodesk AutoCAD Image Processing heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Autodesk AutoCAD. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component Image Processing. Executing a manipulation can lead to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2021-40164. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Autodesk AutoCAD (version now known). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Image Processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A heap-based buffer overflow could occur while parsing TIFF, PICT, TGA, or RLC files. This vulnerability may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

The weakness was presented 10/08/2022. The advisory is shared for download at autodesk.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2021-40164 since 08/27/2021. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at autodesk.com.

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: autodesk.com

Timelineinfo

08/27/2021 🔍
10/08/2022 +407 days 🔍
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02/05/2026 +1216 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: autodesk.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2021-40164 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2021-40164
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-210328

Entryinfo

Created: 10/08/2022 09:01
Updated: 02/05/2026 09:59
Changes: 10/08/2022 09:01 (37), 10/31/2022 10:29 (11), 02/05/2026 09:56 (2), 02/05/2026 09:59 (21)
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Committer: lywand
Cache ID: 216::103

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