Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package liblouis-doc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBLOUISDOC-2752449
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 Mar 2019

Introduced: 28 Mar 2019

CVE-2018-17294  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

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 SLES.

The matchCurrentInput function inside lou_translateString.c of Liblouis prior to 3.7 does not check the input string's length, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via out-of-bounds read) by crafting an input file with certain translation dictionaries.