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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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-02-16T00:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T06:24:11.501Z
Reserved: 2018-02-16T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-7186
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2018-02-16T16:29:00.160
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:45.120
Link: CVE-2018-7186
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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