PT-2014-8435 · Gnome+5 · Orca+5

Kirotawa · Published 2014-12-31 · Updated 2023-03-03 · CVE-2014-8184

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions liblouis versions 2.5.x before 2.5.4

Description A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the findTable() function in liblouis. This issue could allow an attacker to create a malicious file that causes applications using liblouis, such as Orca, to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code when the file is opened.

Recommendations For liblouis versions 2.5.x before 2.5.4, update to version 2.5.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the findTable() function in liblouis until a patch is available.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Stack Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-121

Related Identifiers

CESA-2017_3111

CVE-2014-8184

RHSA-2017:3111

RHSA-2017_3111

SUSE-SU-2017:3078-1

SUSE-SU-2017_3078-1

USN-3474-1

Affected Products

Centos

Orca

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Liblouis

References · 21

• https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/425 · Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-8184 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8184 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3474-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:3078-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8184 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8184 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8184 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-3111.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8184 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3474-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8184 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8184 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15101 · Note
• https://suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20173078-1 · Note