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CVE-2022-26981 (GCVE-0-2022-26981)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-13 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 05:18
VLAI
Summary
Liblouis through 3.21.0 has a buffer overflow in compilePassOpcode in compileTranslationTable.c (called, indirectly, by tools/lou_checktable.c).
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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