Revision Date: | 2018-09-21 | Version: | 1 | Title: | CVE-2018-17294 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium. | Description: | 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.
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability | Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2018-17294
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
| Product(s): | | Definition Synopsis | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed. AND Package Information
NOT liblouis-bin package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected (note: 'code not present').
OR NOT liblouis-data package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected (note: 'code not present').
OR NOT liblouis9 package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected (note: 'code not present').
OR NOT python-louis package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected (note: 'code not present').
OR NOT python3-louis package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected (note: 'code not present').
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