CVE-2017-13742

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

CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v2

4.3

VIR risk

6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13742

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13742.html

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100607
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3111
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484334
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13742.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13742

CWEs

CWE-119

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