Out-of-bounds Write Affecting liblouis14 package, versions <3.3.0-4.5.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBLOUIS14-2752729
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 Mar 2019

Introduced: 28 Mar 2019

CVE-2018-12085  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 liblouis14 to version 3.3.0-4.5.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream liblouis14 package and not the liblouis14 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

Liblouis 3.6.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440.