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Debian: CVE-2018-7186: leptonlib -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-7186: leptonlib -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/16/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/25/2019
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

Leptonica before 1.75.3 does not limit the number of characters in a %s format argument to fscanf or sscanf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by the gplotRead and ptaReadStream functions.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-leptonlib

References

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