Bug 1488933 (CVE-2017-13738) - CVE-2017-13738 liblouis: Illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function
Summary: CVE-2017-13738 liblouis: Illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-13738
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1488944 1491924 1491925
Blocks: 1488949
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-06 13:27 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:20 UTC (History)
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Multiple flaws were found in the processing of translation tables in liblouis. An attacker could crash or potentially execute arbitrary code using malicious translation tables.
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Last Closed: 2017-11-03 15:46:39 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:3111 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: liblouis security update 2017-11-02 19:51:34 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:27:49 UTC 
There is an illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function in compileTranslationTable.c:346 in Liblouis 3.2.0.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484297
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:40:27 UTC 
Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488944]
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-11-02 15:52:17 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
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