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Ubuntu: USN-3408-1 (CVE-2017-13742): Liblouis vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3408-1 (CVE-2017-13742): Liblouis vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/04/2017
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis-bin
  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis12
  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblouis9
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-louis
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-louis

References

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