CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17294
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• liblouis liblouis (< 3.7.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• opensuse leap 15.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105511 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/5e4089659bb49b3095fa541fa6387b4c40d7396e Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/635 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3782-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105511 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/5e4089659bb49b3095fa541fa6387b4c40d7396e Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/635 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3782-1/ Third Party Advisory