CentOS ProjectCESA-2017:3111liblouis security update
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
79.2%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:3111
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):
- Multiple flaws were found in the processing of translation tables in liblouis. An attacker could crash or potentially execute arbitrary code using malicious translation tables. (CVE-2014-8184, CVE-2017-13738, CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13741, CVE-2017-13742, CVE-2017-13743, CVE-2017-13744)
The CVE-2014-8184 issue was discovered by Raphael Sanchez Prudencio (Red Hat).
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2017-November/084774.html
Affected packages:
liblouis
liblouis-devel
liblouis-doc
liblouis-python
liblouis-utils
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3111
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | 7 | i686 | liblouis | < 2.5.2-11.el7_4 | liblouis-2.5.2-11.el7_4.i686.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | liblouis | < 2.5.2-11.el7_4 | liblouis-2.5.2-11.el7_4.x86_64.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | i686 | liblouis-devel | < 2.5.2-11.el7_4 | liblouis-devel-2.5.2-11.el7_4.i686.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | liblouis-devel | < 2.5.2-11.el7_4 | liblouis-devel-2.5.2-11.el7_4.x86_64.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | noarch | liblouis-doc | < 2.5.2-11.el7_4 | liblouis-doc-2.5.2-11.el7_4.noarch.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | noarch | liblouis-python | < 2.5.2-11.el7_4 | liblouis-python-2.5.2-11.el7_4.noarch.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | liblouis-utils | < 2.5.2-11.el7_4 | liblouis-utils-2.5.2-11.el7_4.x86_64.rpm |
Related
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
79.2%