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ghsa-xg7f-9m4r-jh69

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 01:09

Modified

2022-05-14 01:09

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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.

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CVE-2018-17294 (GCVE-0-2018-17294)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-09-21 06:00

Modified

2024-08-05 10:47

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/635	x_refsource_MISC
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3782-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105511	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/5e4089659bb49b3095fa541fa6387b4c40d7396e	x_refsource_MISC
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00038.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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