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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS USN-3672-1 Moderate: Liblouis Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 6, 2018
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Significant weaknesses in Liblouis patched through multiple iterations of Ubuntu with newly released software.
Several security issues were fixed in Liblouis.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Liblouis.

Software Description:

- liblouis: Braille translation library - utilities

Details:

Henri Salo discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files.

An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2018-11683, CVE-2018-11684, CVE-2018-11685)

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security advisory security issue arbitrary code execution moderate severity update instructions ubuntu liblouis

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  liblouis-bin                    3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2
  liblouis14                      3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 17.10:
  liblouis-bin                    3.0.0-3ubuntu1.2
  liblouis12                      3.0.0-3ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  liblouis-bin                    2.6.4-2ubuntu0.3
  liblouis9                       2.6.4-2ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liblouis-bin                    2.5.3-2ubuntu1.4
  liblouis2                       2.5.3-2ubuntu1.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3672-1

  CVE-2018-11683, CVE-2018-11684, CVE-2018-11685

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June 06, 2018

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security advisory security issue arbitrary code execution moderate severity update instructions ubuntu liblouis

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liblouis/3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liblouis/3.0.0-3ubuntu1.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liblouis/2.6.4-2ubuntu0.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liblouis/2.5.3-2ubuntu1.4

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