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CVE-2017-13743

Publication date 29 August 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
liblouis 17.04 zesty Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

ratliff

errors out rather than crashing without ASAN

leosilva

changing for ignored since it's an ASAN report and we aren't updating this right now

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