Bug 1585905 – CVE-2018-11577 liblouis: Segmentation fault in logging.c:lou_logPrint()

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Bug 1585905 - (CVE-2018-11577) CVE-2018-11577 liblouis: Segmentation fault in logging.c:lou_logPrint()

Summary:	CVE-2018-11577 liblouis: Segmentation fault in logging.c:lou_logPrint()

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-11577

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

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1585906 1585907 1586241
Blocks:	1585908
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Reported:	2018-06-05 00:55 EDT by Sam Fowler
Modified:	2018-06-06 04:11 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	liblouis 3.6.0
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-06-05 00:55:37 EDT

Liblouis before version 3.6.0 is vulnerable to a segmentation fault in the logging.c:lou_logPrint() function. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.


Upstream issue:

https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/582


Upstream patch:

https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/3cb3a2c7cb10daf42cefa40e70c8d4cc4e8f751f

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-06-05 00:56:00 EDT

Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1585907]

Comment 6 Andrej Nemec 2018-06-06 04:11:53 EDT

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low, and a future update may address this flaw.

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