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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2014-8184: liblouis security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2014-8184: liblouis security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/02/2019
Created
10/12/2019
Added
10/11/2019
Modified
03/06/2023

Description

A vulnerability was found in liblouis, versions 2.5.x before 2.5.4. A stack-based buffer overflow was found in findTable() in liblouis. An attacker could create a malicious file that would cause applications that use liblouis (such as Orca) to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-liblouis
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-liblouis-python

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