Ubuntu: USN-3782-1 (CVE-2018-17294): Liblouis vulnerabilities
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
09/21/2018
03/19/2019
10/12/2018
03/09/2021
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)
- ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis-bin
- ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis14
- ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis2
- ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis9
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