Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting liblouis-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBLOUISDOC-1378785
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Jun 2018

Introduced: 6 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-11685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 liblouis-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream liblouis-doc package and not the liblouis-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c.