CVE-2017-13741

Publication date 29 August 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

There is a use-after-free in the function compileBrailleIndicator() in compileTranslationTable.c in Liblouis 3.2.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
liblouis 17.04 zesty Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

ratliff

POC does not crash without ASAN, just errors out

leosilva

changing for ignored since it's ASAN issue

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H