CVE-2017-13739

high

Published 2017-08-29 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

8.8

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

VIR risk

8.8

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow that causes a more than two thousand bytes out-of-bounds write in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function resolveSubtable() in compileTranslationTable.c. It will lead to denial of service or remote code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.3.0-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.3.0-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.3.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.3.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.3.0-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
liblouis	liblouis	`3.2.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.