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Bug 1488942 - (CVE-2017-13743) CVE-2017-13743 liblouis: Buffer overflow in the function _lou_showString()
CVE-2017-13743 liblouis: Buffer overflow in the function _lou_showString()
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20170823,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1488944 1492710 1492711
Blocks: 1488949
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Reported: 2017-09-06 09:39 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2017-11-03 12:05 EDT (History)
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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 09:39:22 EDT
There is a buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function _lou_showString() in utils.c, that will lead to a denial of service attack.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484335
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 09:40:49 EDT
Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488944]
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-11-02 11:52:43 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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