Autodesk AutoCAD Security Hotfix Readme

Thank you for downloading Autodesk® AutoCAD® Security Hotfix.

This readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of this security hotfix. It is strongly recommended that you read this entire document before you apply this hotfix to your product. For reference, you should save this document to your hard drive or print a copy.

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This hotfix applies to the following products:

And to the above products installed from the following suites or bundled products:

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This hotfix addresses Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability - a security bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptography library. Heartbleed is registered in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures system as CVE-2014-0160. For more information, please visit the CVE dictionary at http://cve.mitre.org.

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You must have administrative privileges on your Microsoft® Windows® operating system to complete the installation process.

  1. Make sure that all your Autodesk applications are closed.
  2. Download the Hotfix (Autodesk_AutoCAD_Security_Hotfix.exe) to your desktop.
  3. Double-click on the download hotfix file. This will launch the tool and automatically update Autodesk sof