liblouis vulnerabilities

4 June 2018

liblouis vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Liblouis.

Software Description

• liblouis - Braille translation library - utilities

Details

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-11410)

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11440)

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11577)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

liblouis-bin - 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1

liblouis14 - 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 17.10

liblouis-bin - 3.0.0-3ubuntu1.1

liblouis12 - 3.0.0-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

liblouis-bin - 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.2

liblouis9 - 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

liblouis-bin - 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.3

liblouis2 - 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.3

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-11410
• CVE-2018-11440
• CVE-2018-11577