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DEBIAN-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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 leptonlib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.75.3-2"}]}]

Debian:13 leptonlib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.75.3-2"}]}]

Debian:14 leptonlib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.75.3-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org