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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2017-13739 json

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 fu…

published 2017-08-29 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-5256

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • liblouis Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.3.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13739

  • liblouis Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13739

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  • liblouis SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 1.7.0-1.3.3.1
  • python-louis SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 1.7.0-1.3.3.1
  • liblouis SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 2.6.4-6.3.1
  • python-louis SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +2 more 2.6.4-6.3.1
  • python3-louis SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 2.6.4-6.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:2590-1SUSE-SU-2017:2570-1

  • liblouis openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.16.1-1.5

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10953-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-13739 updated cvss 7.8

liblouis: Heap-buffer overflow resulting in an out-of-bounds write in resolveSubtable() function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 liblouis, liblouis-utils, liblouis-python
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.