CVE-2017-13740
HighSummary
There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c. This may lead to denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.
Risk Assessment
This vulnerability may lead to system crashes, affecting service availability. There is also a risk of unspecified impacts that could threaten application security.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update the Liblouis library to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability. Additionally, systems should be monitored for potential exploitation attempts.
Other vulnerabilities in Liblouis 3.2.0
See all- CVE-2017-13739High
Liblouis 3.2.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow that causes a more than two thousand bytes out-of-bounds write. This issue is triggered in the function resolveSubtable() in compileTranslationTable.c.
- CVE-2017-13738High
There is an illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function in compileTranslationTable.c:346 in Liblouis 3.2.0.
- CVE-2023-26769High
A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Liblouis library version 3.24.0. The flaw resides in the resolveSubtable function in compileTranslationTabel.c and can be exploited remotely.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.