CVE-2017-13742

medium

Description

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.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-5259

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484334

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3111

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100607

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-29

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H