Buffer overflow in Liblouis - CVE-2017-13743
Published: August 29, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU38405
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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-2017-13743
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 perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
There is a buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function _lou_showString() in utils.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-13743
Install update from vendor's website.