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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-17294: Vulnerability in Liblouis

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-17294: Vulnerability in Liblouis

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/21/2018
Created
11/21/2019
Added
11/20/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

The matchCurrentInput function inside lou_translateString.c of Liblouis prior to 3.7 does not check the input string's length, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via out-of-bounds read) by crafting an input file with certain translation dictionaries.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-desktop-pdf-viewer-evince-3-25-4-11-4-15-0-1-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-desktop-xdg-xdg-utils-1-1-3-11-4-15-0-1-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-image-library-librsvg-2-40-16-11-4-15-0-1-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-liblouis-3-5-0-11-4-15-0-1-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-libsoup-2-57-1-11-4-15-0-1-2-0

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