Bug 1589940 (CVE-2018-12085)

Summary:	CVE-2018-12085 liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in compileTranslationTable.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
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, mclasen
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1589942, 1589943
Bug Blocks:	1589946

Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-11 17:21:18 UTC

A flaw was found in Liblouis 3.6.0. A stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440.


References:
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/595

Patch:
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/dbfa58bb128cae86729578ac596056b3385817ef

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-06-11 17:21:46 UTC

Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1589943]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:43:03 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 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-28 16:32:08 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-2018-12085