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CVE-2017-13743

Published: 29 August 2017

There is a buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function _lou_showString() in utils.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Notes

AuthorNote
ratliff
errors out rather than crashing without ASAN
leosilva
changing for ignored since it's an ASAN report and we aren't updating this right now

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
liblouis
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored

zesty Ignored

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H