Buffer overflow in Liblouis - CVE-2017-13739
Published: August 29, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU38401
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13739
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Liblouis
Affected software:
Liblouis
Liblouis
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
There is a heap-based buffer overflow that causes a more than two thousand bytes out-of-bounds write in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function resolveSubtable() in compileTranslationTable.c. It will lead to denial of service or remote code execution.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-13739
Install update from vendor's website.