vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3408-1 (CVE-2017-13739): Liblouis vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 29, 2017
Added
Sep 4, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow that causes a more than two thousand bytes out-of-bounds write in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function resolveSubtable() in compileTranslationTable.c. It will lead to denial of service or remote code execution.

Solutions

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