Medium: liblouis

Issue Overview:

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a Segmentation fault in lou_logPrint in logging.c. (CVE-2018-11577)

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function includeFile in compileTranslationTable.c. (CVE-2018-11684)

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c. (CVE-2018-11685)

Liblouis 3.6.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440. (CVE-2018-12085)

Affected Packages:

liblouis

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update liblouis to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    liblouis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.aarch64  
    liblouis-devel-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.aarch64  
    liblouis-utils-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.aarch64  
    liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    liblouis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.i686  
    liblouis-devel-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.i686  
    liblouis-utils-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.i686  
    liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    python2-louis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
    python3-louis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
    liblouis-doc-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
  
src:  
    liblouis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    liblouis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  
    liblouis-devel-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  
    liblouis-utils-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  
    liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-11577, CVE-2018-11684, CVE-2018-11685, CVE-2018-12085

Mitre: CVE-2018-11577, CVE-2018-11684, CVE-2018-11685, CVE-2018-12085