CVE-2017-13743

Name	CVE-2017-13743
Description	There is a buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function _lou_showString() in utils.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)
Debian Bugs	874302

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
liblouis (PTS)	wheezy	2.4.1-1	vulnerable
	jessie	2.5.3-3	vulnerable
	buster, stretch	3.0.0-3	vulnerable
	sid	3.3.0-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
liblouis	source	(unstable)	3.3.0-1	low		874302

Notes

[stretch] - liblouis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - liblouis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - liblouis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484335