Out-of-bounds Write Affecting liblouis package, versions <3.22.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBLOUIS-2848685
  • published28 May 2022
  • disclosed2 Jun 2022

Introduced: 28 May 2022

CVE-2022-31783  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 liblouis to version 3.22.0-1 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 3.21.0 has an out-of-bounds write in compileRule in compileTranslationTable.c, as demonstrated by lou_trace.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1