vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-3408-1 (CVE-2017-13739): Liblouis vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Aug 29, 2017 | Sep 4, 2017 | Mar 27, 2026 |
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
ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis-binubuntu-upgrade-liblouis12ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis2ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis9ubuntu-upgrade-python-louisubuntu-upgrade-python3-louis
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