#VU38404 Buffer overflow in Liblouis - CVE-2017-13742

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#VU38404 Buffer overflow in Liblouis - CVE-2017-13742

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU38404
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13742
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Liblouis
Software vendor:
Liblouis

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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