Bug 2181139 (CVE-2023-26768)

Summary:	CVE-2023-26768 liblouis: buffer overflow in lou_setDataPath
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dking, mclasen
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:		Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	2181140, 2181150, 2181151
Bug Blocks:	2179176

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-03-23 08:19:46 UTC

Buffer Overflow vulnerability was found in Liblouis v.3.24.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the compileTranslationTable.c and lou_setDataPath functions.

References:
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/pull/1302
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/1301

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-03-23 08:20:12 UTC

Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2181140]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-07 08:15:00 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:6385 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6385