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CVE-2017-13742

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• 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
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100607
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3111
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484334

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