What is CVE-2017-13742?

CVE-2017-13742 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liblouis, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-29.

How severe is CVE-2017-13742?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Liblouis

CVE-2017-13742

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-08-29 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (78.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Liblouis — versions 3.2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/100607 (vdb-entry)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3111 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-13742?: CVE-2017-13742 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liblouis, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-29.
How severe is CVE-2017-13742?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.