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Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVE-2023-26768

High
7.5/10

Summary

Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in Liblouis version prior to 3.25.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the "compileTranslationTable.c" and "lou_setDataPath" functions.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The program copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

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