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CVE-2018-7186 Details

Description

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugs.debian.org/890548 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/ee301cb2029db8a6289c5295daa42bba7715e99a CVEPatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.html CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01 CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
leptonica leptonica
< 1.75.3

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:leptonica:leptonica:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
7.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-7186
NVD Published Date:
Feb 16, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2018-7186 Details - Not Deferred