LibreCAD is a free Open Source personal CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. LibreCAD is a comprehensive, 2D CAD application that you can download and install for free. There is a large base of satisfied LibreCAD users worldwide, and it is available in more than 20 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, ...). It can read DXF and DWG files and can write DXF, PDF and SVG files. You can download, install and distribute LibreCAD freely, with no fear of copyright infringement.
LibreCAD is a feature-packed and mature 2D-CAD application with some really great advantages:
- It's free – no worry about license costs or annual fees.
- No language barriers – it's available in a large number of languages, with more being added continually.
- GPLv2 public license – you can use it, customize it, hack it and copy it with free user support and developer support from our active worldwide community and ou experienced developer team.
- LibreCAD is an Open Source community-driven project: development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community; you, too, can get involved and influence its future development.
This is a bugfix release for official stable release 2.2.0.
It fixes a minor vulnerability (CVE-2023-30259) with a mature shapelib contained in our codebase.
The vulnerability addresses only the plugin Importshp, which is used to import shape files (SHP/SHX/DBF).
Shape files are used in surveying and so do not affect the most users.
As this is probably not a widely used plugin, the fix was just to remove the plugin.
If you are a surveyor and need the shape file support, it is safe to stay with 2.2.0 version, as long as you know the origin of the used shape files.
The vulnerability is an out-of-bounds read, what means, if a malformed shape file is imported, the application can crash. With some efforts an attacker possibly can create a shape file, which can lead to unintended code execution and seize your computer. But this is a worst case scenario, which I would rate as extremely low to occur.
Download: LibreCAD 2.2.0.1 | 24.3 MB (Open Source)
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