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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-13739

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:36 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-13739

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2017-13739
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "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.",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:31.117793640Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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