CVE-2017-13738

Publication date 29 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

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Description

There is an illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function in compileTranslationTable.c:346 in Liblouis 3.2.0.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
liblouis	17.04 zesty	Fixed 3.0.0-3ubuntu0.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3408-1
Liblouis vulnerabilities
4 September 2017

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