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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-02-16T00:00:00

Updated: 2023-12-18T08:06:22.617260

Reserved: 2018-02-16T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-7186

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-16T16:29:00.160

Modified: 2023-12-18T08:15:06.603


Link: CVE-2018-7186

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