critical9.8
CVE-2018-7186
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…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Leptonica | Leptonica | before 1.75.3 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 7.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://bugs.debian.org/890548
- https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/ee301cb2029db8a6289c5295daa42bba7715e99a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
- https://bugs.debian.org/890548
- https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/ee301cb2029db8a6289c5295daa42bba7715e99a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01