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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2018-17294)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for liblouis, python-luis and python3-louis fixes the following issue :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2018-17294: Fixed an out of bounds read in matchCurrentInput function which could allow a remote attacker to cause Denail of Service (bsc#1109319).

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.

This update for liblouis fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2018-17294: Fixed an out of bounds read in     matchCurrentInput function which could allow a remote     attacker to cause Denail of Service (bsc#1109319).

  - CVE-2018-11410: Fixed an invalid free in the compileRule     function in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1094685)

  - CVE-2018-11440: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in     the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c     (bsc#1095189)

  - CVE-2018-11577: Fixed a segmentation fault in     lou_logPrint in logging.c (bsc#1095945)

  - CVE-2018-11683: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in     the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c     (different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440)     (bsc#1095827)

  - CVE-2018-11684: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in the     function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c     (bsc#1095826)

  - CVE-2018-11685: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in     the function compileHyphenation() in     compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095825)

  - CVE-2018-12085: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in     the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c     (different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440)     (bsc#1097103)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for liblouis and python-louis fixes the following issue :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2018-17294: Fixed an out of bounds read in matchCurrentInput function which could allow a remote attacker to cause Denail of Service (bsc#1109319).

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.

This update for liblouis fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-17294: Fixed an out of bounds read in matchCurrentInput function which could allow a remote attacker to cause Denail of Service (bsc#1109319).

CVE-2018-11410: Fixed an invalid free in the compileRule function in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1094685)

CVE-2018-11440: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095189)

CVE-2018-11577: Fixed a segmentation fault in lou_logPrint in logging.c (bsc#1095945)

CVE-2018-11683: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440) (bsc#1095827)

CVE-2018-11684: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095826)

CVE-2018-11685: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function compileHyphenation() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095825)

CVE-2018-12085: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440) (bsc#1097103)

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.

Security fix for CVE-2018-17294

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

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3782-1 advisory.

    Henri Salo discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-12085)

    It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-17294)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
222055	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-17294	Nessus	Misc.	medium
143726	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2020:3107-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
123815	openSUSE Security Update : liblouis (openSUSE-2019-1160)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
123552	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2019:13994-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
123501	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2019:0795-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
120863	Fedora 29 : liblouis (2018-e470c7f387)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
120521	Fedora 28 : liblouis (2018-70fac49405)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
117963	Fedora 27 : liblouis (2018-9a09435935)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
117915	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Liblouis vulnerabilities (USN-3782-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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