Bug 1585905 (CVE-2018-11577)

Summary:	CVE-2018-11577 liblouis: Segmentation fault in logging.c:lou_logPrint()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	martin.gieseking, mclasen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	liblouis 3.6.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2020-04-28 16:31:59 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1585906, 1585907, 1586241
Bug Blocks:	1585908

Description Sam Fowler 2018-06-05 04:55:37 UTC

Liblouis before version 3.6.0 is vulnerable to a segmentation fault in the logging.c:lou_logPrint() function. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.


Upstream issue:

https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/582


Upstream patch:

https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/3cb3a2c7cb10daf42cefa40e70c8d4cc4e8f751f

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-06-05 04:56:00 UTC

Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1585907]

Comment 6 Andrej Nemec 2018-06-06 08:11:53 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low, and a future update may address this flaw.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:42:51 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1708 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1708

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-28 16:31:59 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-11577