CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-13741

Use After Free

Published: Aug 29, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
NEGLIGIBLE

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.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Liblouis Liblouis 3.2.0 (including) 3.2.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat liblouis-0:2.5.2-11.el7_4 *
Liblouis Ubuntu devel *
Liblouis Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Liblouis Ubuntu trusty *
Liblouis Ubuntu xenial *
Liblouis Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References