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HistoryApr 28, 2020 - 9:07 a.m.

Moderate: liblouis security and bug fix update

2020-04-2809:07:17
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liblouis
braille translator
security update
bug fixes
buffer overflow
segmentation fault
cve-2018-11684
cve-2018-11685
cve-2018-11577
cve-2018-12085
rocky linux 8.2 release notes
nemeth
marburg
hyphenation

AI Score

9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.008

Percentile

81.1%

Liblouis is an open source braille translator and back-translator named in honor of Louis Braille. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. New languages can easily be added through tables that support a rule or dictionary based approach. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg).

Security Fix(es):

  • liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in function includeFile in compileTranslationTable.c (CVE-2018-11684)

  • liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in function compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c (CVE-2018-11685)

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

  • liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in compileTranslationTable.c (CVE-2018-12085)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.