Bug 1488939 – CVE-2017-13742 liblouis: Stack-buffer overflow in the function includeFile()

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Bug 1488939 - (CVE-2017-13742) CVE-2017-13742 liblouis: Stack-buffer overflow in the function includeFile()

Summary:	CVE-2017-13742 liblouis: Stack-buffer overflow in the function includeFile()

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2017-13742

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1488944 1492523 1492524
Blocks:	1488949
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Reported:	2017-09-06 09:38 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-11-03 12:05 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:3111	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: liblouis security update	2017-11-02 15:51:34 EDT

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 09:38:00 EDT

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead to a denial of service attack.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484334

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 09:40:42 EDT

Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488944]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-11-02 11:52:38 EDT

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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