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CVE-2018-17294

Published: 21 September 2018

The matchCurrentInput function inside lou_translateString.c of Liblouis prior to 3.7 does not check the input string's length, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via out-of-bounds read) by crafting an input file with certain translation dictionaries.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
liblouis
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (3.7.0-1)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
bionic
Released (3.5.0-1ubuntu0.3)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/5e4089659bb49b3095fa541fa6387b4c40d7396e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H