CVE-2017-13743 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2017-08-29

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

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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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-5260	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.

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 0.00229.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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=1484335
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13743
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13743

History

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Subscriptions

Liblouis Liblouis

Redhat Enterprise Linux

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-29T06:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:05:20.067Z

Reserved: 2017-08-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-13743

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-29T06:29:00.813

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

Link: CVE-2017-13743

Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2017-13743 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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