Bug 1488933 (CVE-2017-13738)

Summary:	CVE-2017-13738 liblouis: Illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	martin.gieseking, rmatos
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	Multiple flaws were found in the processing of translation tables in liblouis. An attacker could crash or potentially execute arbitrary code using malicious translation tables.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2017-11-03 15:46:39 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1488944, 1491924, 1491925
Bug Blocks:	1488949

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:27:49 UTC

There is an illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function in compileTranslationTable.c:346 in Liblouis 3.2.0.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484297

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:40:27 UTC

Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488944]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-11-02 15:52:17 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:3111 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3111