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openSUSE: 2018:2819-1 Moderate: liblouis Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Liblouis update resolves six vulnerabilities, boosting protection for openSUSE Leap 42.3 constituents. Critical patch information enclosed.
An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for liblouis fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-11440: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function

parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095189)

- CVE-2018-11577: Fixed a segmentation fault in lou_logPrint in logging.c

(bsc#1095945)

- CVE-2018-11683: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function

parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (different vulnerability than

CVE-2018-11440) (bsc#1095827)

- CVE-2018-11684: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in the function

includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095826)

- CVE-2018-11685: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function

compileHyphenation() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095825)

- CVE-2018-12085: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function

parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (different vulnerability than

CVE-2018-11440) (bsc#1097103)

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security advisory moderate buffer overflow software update security fix openSUSE liblouis

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1039=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

liblouis-data-2.6.4-9.1

liblouis-debugsource-2.6.4-9.1

liblouis-devel-2.6.4-9.1

liblouis-doc-2.6.4-9.1

liblouis-tools-2.6.4-9.1

liblouis-tools-debuginfo-2.6.4-9.1

liblouis9-2.6.4-9.1

liblouis9-debuginfo-2.6.4-9.1

python-louis-2.6.4-9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11440.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11577.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11683.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11684.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11685.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12085.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095189

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095825

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095826

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095827

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095945

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097103

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2819-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow software update security fix openSUSE liblouis

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