Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20201708
Revision Date:2020-04-28Version:636
Title:RHSA-2020:1708: liblouis security and bug fix update (Moderate)
Description: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.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-11577
    CVE-2018-11684
    CVE-2018-11685
    CVE-2018-12085
    RHSA-2020:1708
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is installed
  • OR Red Hat CoreOS 4 is installed
  • AND
  • liblouis is earlier than 0:2.6.2-21.el8
  • AND liblouis is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • python3-louis is earlier than 0:2.6.2-21.el8
  • AND python3-louis is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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