CVE-2017-13740: liblouis

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-13740 is a high (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in liblouis. EPSS estimates a 1.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 29-08-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.