Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU38406

#VU38406 Out-of-bounds read in Liblouis - CVE-2017-13744

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

Vulnerability identifier: #VU38406

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-2017-13744

CWE-ID: CWE-125

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 an illegal address access in the function _lou_getALine() in compileTranslationTable.c:343 in Liblouis 3.2.0.

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