Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU38400

Out-of-bounds read in Liblouis - CVE-2017-13738

Published: August 29, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU38400

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13738

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

There is an illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function in compileTranslationTable.c:346 in Liblouis 3.2.0.

Liblouis
Fedora
liblouis

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liblouis - addressed in versions 2.6.2-12.fc26, 2.6.2-12.fc27