CVE-2017-13744

Publication date 29 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

There is an illegal address access in the function _lou_getALine() in compileTranslationTable.c:343 in Liblouis 3.2.0.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
liblouis	17.04 zesty	Fixed 3.0.0-3ubuntu0.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.1

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
liblouis	Other: https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/pull/393/commits/edf8ee00197e5a9b062554bdca00fe1617d257a4

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3408-1
Liblouis vulnerabilities
4 September 2017

Other references