PT-2017-13061 · Liblouis+4 · Liblouis+4

Published 2017-08-29 · Updated 2017-12-02 · CVE-2017-13740

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 stack-based buffer overflow issue exists, triggered in the parseChars() function in compileTranslationTable.c. This can lead to denial of service or possibly other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For Liblouis version 3.2.0, consider disabling the parseChars() function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CESA-2017_3111

CVE-2017-13740

RHSA-2017:3111

RHSA-2017_3111

SUSE-SU-2017:2570-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2590-1

USN-3408-1

Affected Products

Centos

Liblouis

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 34

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:2570-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13742 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13744 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13738 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-13740 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13740 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13740 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3408-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:2590-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13740 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3408-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13740 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13740 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-3111.html · Vendor Advisory