CVE-2017-13739

HIGH

Liblouis 3.2.0 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in resolveSubtable()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484299
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100607

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0219
EPSS Percentile 80.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
liblouis/liblouis 3.2.0
Published Aug 29, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026