Out-of-bounds Write Affecting liblouis-debugsource package, versions <0:2.6.2-21.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-LIBLOUISDEBUGSOURCE-3221772
  • published5 Jan 2023
  • disclosed4 Jun 2018

Introduced: 4 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-11685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 liblouis-debugsource to version 0:2.6.2-21.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2020:1708.

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 Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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