RedHat: RHSA-2020-1708:01 Moderate: liblouis security and bug fix update
Summary
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):
* liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in function includeFile in
compileTranslationTable.c (CVE-2018-11684)
* liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in function compileHyphenation in
compileTranslationTable.c (CVE-2018-11685)
* liblouis: Segmentation fault in logging.c:lou_logPrint() (CVE-2018-11577)
* liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in compileTranslationTable.c
(CVE-2018-12085)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Summary
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11577 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11684 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11685 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12085 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.aarch64.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.aarch64.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.aarch64.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch:
python3-louis-2.6.2-21.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.s390x.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.s390x.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.s390x.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.i686.rpm
liblouis-2.6.2-21.el8.x86_64.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.i686.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.x86_64.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.i686.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-2.6.2-21.el8.x86_64.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.i686.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.el8.x86_64.rpm
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details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
Topic
An update for liblouis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Bugs Fixed
1585905 - CVE-2018-11577 liblouis: Segmentation fault in logging.c:lou_logPrint()
1588631 - CVE-2018-11684 liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in function includeFile in compileTranslationTable.c
1588636 - CVE-2018-11685 liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in function compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c
1589940 - CVE-2018-12085 liblouis: Stack-based buffer overflow in compileTranslationTable.c