CVE-2017-13742

Publication date 29 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

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 Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3408-1
    • Liblouis vulnerabilities
    • 4 September 2017

Other references