| Name | CVE-2017-13741 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 874302 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| liblouis (PTS) | bullseye | 3.16.0-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.24.0-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.31.0-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| liblouis | source | stretch | 3.0.0-3+deb9u1 | | | |
| liblouis | source | (unstable) | 3.3.0-1 | low | | 874302 |
Notes
[jessie] - liblouis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - liblouis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484332
Proposed fix via pull request: https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/pull/393/commits/af5791ea792acc0a9707738001aa1df3daff7a66