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CVE-2018-11440

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2018-05-25
CWE:: CWE-121

Bugzilla:: 1582658: CVE-2018-11440 liblouis: Stack-based Buffer Overflow in parseChars function in compileTranslationTable.c

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c.

Find out more about CVE-2018-11440 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the version of Liblouis as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score	3.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Low

Affected Packages State

Platform	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	liblouis	Not affected

Last Modified 2018-06-06T15:19:37+00:00

CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation