CVE-2018-17294

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 21, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Sep 21, 2018

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/635
USN-3782-1vendor-advisory
105511vdb-entry
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/5e4089659bb49b3095fa541fa6387b4c40d7396e
openSUSE-SU-2019:1160vendor-advisory

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