This update for liblouis fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-13738: Prevent illegal address access in the
    _lou_getALine function that allowed to cause remote DoS     (bsc#1056105).

  - CVE-2017-13739: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in     the function resolveSubtable() that could have caused     DoS or remote code execution (bsc#1056101).

  - CVE-2017-13740: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in     the function parseChars() that could have caused DoS or     possibly unspecified other impact (bsc#1056097) 

  - CVE-2017-13741: Prevent use-after-free in function     compileBrailleIndicator() that allowed to cause remote     DoS (bsc#1056095).

  - CVE_2017-13742: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in     function includeFile that allowed to cause remote DoS     (bsc#1056093).

  - CVE-2017-13743: Prevent buffer overflow triggered in the     function _lou_showString() that allowed to cause remote     DoS (bsc#1056090).

  - CVE-2017-13744: Prevent illegal address access in the     function _lou_getALine() that allowed to cause remote     DoS (bsc#1056088).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

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

  - There is a buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function _lou_showString() in utils.c, that     will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13743)

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

This update for liblouis fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-13739: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in     the function resolveSubtable() that could have caused     DoS or remote code execution (bsc#1056101)

  - CVE-2017-13740: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in     the function parseChars() that could have caused DoS or     possibly unspecified other impact (bsc#1056097) ()

  - CVE-2017-13741: Prevent use-after-free in function     compileBrailleIndicator() that allowed to cause remote     DoS (bsc#1056095)

  - CVE_2017-13742: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in     function includeFile that allowed to cause remote DoS     (bsc#1056093).

  - CVE-2017-13743: Prevent buffer overflow triggered in the     function _lou_showString() that allowed to cause remote     DoS (bsc#1056090)

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.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3111 advisory.

    [2.5.2-11]
    - Resolves: CVE-2017-13738, CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13741,       CVE-2017-13742, CVE-2017-13743, CVE-2017-13744, CVE-2014-8184

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

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

Security fix for CVE-2017-13738 CVE-2017-13739 CVE-2017-13740 CVE-2017-13741 CVE-2017-13742 CVE-2017-13743 CVE-2017-13744

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3111 advisory.

    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).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

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) :

* 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).

This update for liblouis fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-13738: Prevent illegal address access in the
    _lou_getALine function that allowed to cause remote DoS     (bsc#1056105).

  - CVE-2017-13739: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in     the function resolveSubtable() that could have caused     DoS or remote code execution (bsc#1056101).

  - CVE-2017-13740: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in     the function parseChars() that could have caused DoS or     possibly unspecified other impact (bsc#1056097)

  - CVE-2017-13741: Prevent use-after-free in function     compileBrailleIndicator() that allowed to cause remote     DoS (bsc#1056095).

  - CVE_2017-13742: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in     function includeFile that allowed to cause remote DoS     (bsc#1056093).

  - CVE-2017-13743: Prevent buffer overflow triggered in the     function _lou_showString() that allowed to cause remote     DoS (bsc#1056090).

  - CVE-2017-13744: Prevent illegal address access in the     function _lou_getALine() that allowed to cause remote     DoS (bsc#1056088).

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.

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

  - 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)

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.

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)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
103660	openSUSE Security Update : liblouis (openSUSE-2017-1120)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/4/2017	1/19/2021	high
255134	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-13743	Nessus	Misc.	8/25/2025	8/25/2025	medium
103564	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2017:2590-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/29/2017	1/19/2021	high
104368	Oracle Linux 7 : liblouis (ELSA-2017-3111)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/3/2017	11/1/2024	high
106012	Fedora 27 : liblouis (2017-f9f6398158)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/15/2018	11/3/2025	high
104592	Fedora 26 : liblouis (2017-2c9852dd05)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	11/16/2017	11/14/2025	high
104372	RHEL 7 : liblouis (RHSA-2017:3111)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/3/2017	11/5/2024	high
104396	CentOS 7 : liblouis (CESA-2017:3111)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/6/2017	11/14/2025	high
103528	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2017:2570-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/28/2017	1/6/2021	high
104908	EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : liblouis (EulerOS-SA-2017-1289)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	12/1/2017	11/13/2025	high
104909	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : liblouis (EulerOS-SA-2017-1290)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	12/1/2017	11/13/2025	high
104373	Scientific Linux Security Update : liblouis on SL7.x x86_64 (20171102)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	11/3/2017	11/14/2025	high

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