Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package liblouis  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-LIBLOUIS-2422694
  • published15 Mar 2022
  • disclosed13 Mar 2022

Introduced: 13 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-26981  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

Liblouis through 3.21.0 has a buffer overflow in compilePassOpcode in compileTranslationTable.c (called, indirectly, by tools/lou_checktable.c).