PT-2017-13059 · Liblouis+2 · Liblouis+2

Published 2017-08-29 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-13739

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Liblouis version 3.2.0

Description A heap-based buffer overflow issue exists, causing an out-of-bounds write of more than two thousand bytes. This is triggered in the resolveSubtable() function within compileTranslationTable.c, potentially leading to denial of service or remote code execution.

Recommendations For Liblouis version 3.2.0, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the resolveSubtable() function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-13739

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10953-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2570-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2590-1

SUSE-SU-2017_2590-1

USN-3408-1

Affected Products

Liblouis

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 48

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13739 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13744 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:2570-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13739 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13742 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3408-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-13739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10953-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13739 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13740 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13740 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13738 · Vendor Advisory