UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13739

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / liblouis

Package

Name: liblouis
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/liblouis@2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.6.2-2

2.6.4-2

Ecosystem specific

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            "binary_name": "liblouis-bin"
        },
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            "binary_version": "2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "liblouis-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "liblouis-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "liblouis9"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "python-louis"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "python3-louis"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}