CVE-2018-7186 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Leptonica before 1.75.3 does not limit the number of characters in a %s format argument to fscanf or sscanf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by the gplotRead and ptaReadStream functions.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01201.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Leptonica	Leptonica

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:leptonica:leptonica:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-1302-1	leptonlib security update
Ubuntu USN	USN-4819-1	Leptonica vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.debian.org/890548
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/ee301cb2029db8a6289c5295daa42bba7715e99a
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-02-16T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:24:11.501Z

Reserved: 2018-02-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-7186

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-16T16:29:00.160

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:45.120

Link: CVE-2018-7186

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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