A missing patch for a stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() was found in Red Hat version of liblouis before 2.5.4. An attacker could cause a denial of service condition or potentially even arbitrary code execution.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 5.04, has liblouis packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - A missing fix for one stack-based buffer overflow in     findTable() for CVE-2014-8184 was discovered. An     attacker could cause denial of service or potentially     allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-15101)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the version of the liblouis packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - A missing fix for one stack-based buffer overflow in     findTable() for CVE-2014-8184 was discovered. An     attacker could cause denial of service or potentially     allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-15101)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An update for liblouis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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) :

* A missing fix for one stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() for CVE-2014-8184 was discovered. An attacker could cause denial of service or potentially allow arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2017-15101)

Red Hat would like to thank Samuel Thibault for reporting this issue.

An update for liblouis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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) :

* A missing fix for one stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() for CVE-2014-8184 was discovered. An attacker could cause denial of service or potentially allow arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2017-15101)

Red Hat would like to thank Samuel Thibault for reporting this issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has attempted to extract the preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA advisories. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security Fix(es) :

  - A missing fix for one stack-based buffer overflow in     findTable() for CVE-2014-8184 was discovered. An     attacker could cause denial of service or potentially     allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-15101)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3384 advisory.

  - liblouis: incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8184 (CVE-2017-15101)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2017:3384 :

An update for liblouis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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) :

* A missing fix for one stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() for CVE-2014-8184 was discovered. An attacker could cause denial of service or potentially allow arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2017-15101)

Red Hat would like to thank Samuel Thibault for reporting this issue.

This update for liblouis fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2017-15101: Buffer overflow in findTable     (bsc#1067336).

  - CVE-2014-8184: stack-based buffer overflow in     findTable() (bsc#1062458).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
127147	NewStart CGSL MAIN 5.04 : liblouis Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0004)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	critical
105310	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : liblouis (EulerOS-SA-2017-1329)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
105309	EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : liblouis (EulerOS-SA-2017-1328)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
105061	CentOS 7 : liblouis (CESA-2017:3384)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	critical
105049	Virtuozzo 7 : liblouis / liblouis-devel / liblouis-doc / etc (VZLSA-2017-3384)	Nessus	Virtuozzo Local Security Checks	critical
105031	Scientific Linux Security Update : liblouis on SL7.x x86_64 (20171205)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	critical
105029	RHEL 7 : liblouis (RHSA-2017:3384)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
105028	Oracle Linux 7 : liblouis (ELSA-2017-3384)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
104779	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2017:3078-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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