Stack-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package liblouis-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBLOUISDEBUGSOURCE-1326766
  • 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)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream liblouis-debugsource package and not the liblouis-debugsource package as distributed by RHEL.

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