CVE-2018-11684

liblouis: Liblouis is an open source braille translator and back-translator named in honor of Louis Braille

CVE-2018-11684 is fixed in 6 products on 1 platform, first by liblouis-bin 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2, released June 3, 2018. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
Moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0220
82nd percentile

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
liblouis · RHEL 8 0:2.6.2-21.el8 RHSA-2020:1708 Apr 28, 2020
liblouis-bin · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 liblouis-bin 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 Jun 3, 2018
liblouis-data · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 liblouis-data 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 Jun 3, 2018
liblouis14 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 liblouis14 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 Jun 3, 2018
python-louis · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 python-louis 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 Jun 3, 2018
python3-louis · RHEL 8 0:2.6.2-21.el8 RHSA-2020:1708 Apr 28, 2020
python3-louis · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 python3-louis 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2 Jun 3, 2018