CVE-2018-7186 (GCVE-0-2018-7186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-16 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:24
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2018-02-16 00:00
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