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Ubuntu: USN-3408-1 (CVE-2017-13742): Liblouis vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 29, 2017
Added
Sep 4, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis-binubuntu-upgrade-liblouis12ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis2ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis9ubuntu-upgrade-python-louisubuntu-upgrade-python3-louis
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