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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-13743: liblouis security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-13743: liblouis security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/04/2017
Modified
01/18/2018

Description

There is a buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function _lou_showString() in utils.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

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

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