CVE-2017-13742 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.004.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Liblouis	Liblouis
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:liblouis:liblouis:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
liblouis-0:2.5.2-11.el7_4	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7	RHSA-2017:3111	2017-11-02T00:00:00Z

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-5259	There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Ubuntu USN	USN-3408-1	Liblouis vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100607
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3111
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484334
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13742
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13742

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-29T06:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:05:20.078Z

Reserved: 2017-08-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-13742

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-29T06:29:00.780

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-13742

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-08-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-13742 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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