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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-12085: Moderate: liblouis security and bug fix update (ALSA-2020-1708)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-12085: Moderate: liblouis security and bug fix update (ALSA-2020-1708)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/09/2018
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

Liblouis 3.6.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-liblouis
  • alma-upgrade-python3-louis

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