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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-1708-01 Moderate Liblouis Update

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Enhance address security concerns in liblouis for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Discover the improvements and updates available.
An update for liblouis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat buffer overflow segmentation fault liblouis

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11577 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11684 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11685 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12085 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.aarch64.rpm liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.aarch64.rpm liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.aarch64.rpm liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: python3-louis-2.6.2-21.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.s390x.rpm liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.s390x.rpm liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.s390x.rpm liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.i686.rpm liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.x86_64.rpm liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.i686.rpm liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.x86_64.rpm liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.i686.rpm liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.x86_64.rpm liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.i686.rpm liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1708-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1708
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for liblouis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat buffer overflow segmentation fault liblouis

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1585905 - CVE-2018-11577 liblouis: Segmentation fault in logging.c:lou_logPrint()

1588631 - CVE-2018-11684 liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in function includeFile in compileTranslationTable.c

1588636 - CVE-2018-11685 liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in function compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c

1589940 - CVE-2018-12085 liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in compileTranslationTable.c

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