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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-13740: liblouis security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-13740: liblouis security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/04/2017
Modified
01/18/2018

Description

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Solution(s)

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

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