Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting liblouis 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-RHEL8-LIBLOUIS-1326954
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Jun 2018

Introduced: 6 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-11683  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 liblouis.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream liblouis package and not the liblouis package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440.