Out-of-bounds Write Affecting liblouis package, versions <3.5.0-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBLOUIS-1550504
  • published9 Jun 2018
  • disclosed9 Jun 2018

Introduced: 9 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12085  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 liblouis to version 3.5.0-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream liblouis package and not the liblouis package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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