Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 16, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-7186
CVE-2018-7186
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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References
5- github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/ee301cb2029db8a6289c5295daa42bba7715e99anvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- bugs.debian.org/890548nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00005.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01nvd
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