Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package leptonlib  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-LEPTONLIB-645978
  • published16 Feb 2018
  • disclosed16 Feb 2018

Introduced: 16 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7186  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream leptonlib package and not the leptonlib package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.