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Ubuntu: USN-3782-1 (CVE-2018-12085): Liblouis vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3782-1 (CVE-2018-12085): Liblouis vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/09/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/12/2018
Modified
03/09/2021

Description

Liblouis 3.6.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis-bin
  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis14
  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis9

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