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CVE-2018-7186

Published: Feb 16, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Leptonica before 1.75.3 does not limit the number of characters in a %s format argument to fscanf or sscanf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by the gplotRead and ptaReadStream functions.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[debian-lts-announce] 20180307 [SECURITY] [DLA 1302-1] leptonlib security update

mailing-list

https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/ee301cb2029db8a6289c5295daa42bba7715e99a

https://bugs.debian.org/890548

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html

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