Bug 1488936 (CVE-2017-13739) - CVE-2017-13739 liblouis: Heap-buffer overflow resulting in an out-of-bounds write in resolveSubtable() function
Summary: CVE-2017-13739 liblouis: Heap-buffer overflow resulting in an out-of-bounds w...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-13739
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1488944
Blocks: 1488949
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-06 13:32 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-09-18 13:53:41 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:32:59 UTC 
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 code execution.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484299
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:40:35 UTC 
Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488944]
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