Bug 1488937 (CVE-2017-13740)

Summary:	CVE-2017-13740 liblouis: Stack-buffer overflow in the parseChars() 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:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	martin.gieseking, rmatos
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Bug Depends On:	1488944, 1492516, 1492517
Bug Blocks:	1488949

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:34:45 UTC

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484306

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:40:56 UTC

Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488944]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2017-11-02 15:52:29 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