Bug 1588624 (CVE-2018-11683)

Summary:	CVE-2018-11683 liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
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:	2021-10-25 09:44:42 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1588625, 1588626
Bug Blocks:	1588627

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-07 16:07:08 UTC

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/591

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/d4fc803687e38a5355fb686bf98cc082951f3043

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-07 16:07:34 UTC

Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1588625]