Bug 1589940 – CVE-2018-12085 liblouis: stack-based buffer overflow compileTranslationTable.c

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Bug 1589940 - (CVE-2018-12085) CVE-2018-12085 liblouis: stack-based buffer overflow compileTranslationTable.c

Summary:	CVE-2018-12085 liblouis: stack-based buffer overflow compileTranslationTable.c

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-12085

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

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Depends On:	1589942 1589943
Blocks:	1589946
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Reported:	2018-06-11 13:21 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-06-14 06:27 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	liblouis 3.7
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-11 13:21:18 EDT

A flaw was found in Liblouis 3.6.0. A stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440.


References:
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/595

Patch:
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/dbfa58bb128cae86729578ac596056b3385817ef

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-06-11 13:21:46 EDT

Created liblouis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1589943]

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