vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3782-1 (CVE-2018-17294): Liblouis vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 21, 2018
Added
Oct 12, 2018
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

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