USN-3408-1: Liblouis vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3408-1

4th September, 2017

liblouis vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 17.04



• 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 an illegal address access can be made in
Liblouis. A remote attacker can take advantange of this to
access sensitive information. ()

It was discovered a heap-based buffer overflow that causes bytes
out-of-bounds write in Liblouis. A remote attacker can use this to
denial of service or remote code execution. (,























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

References

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CVE-2017-13744