PT-2018-3471 · Liblouis+2 · Liblouis+2

Henri Salo · Published 2018-05-25 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-11440

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Liblouis version 3.5.0

Description: The issue is related to a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the parseChars function. This can potentially allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations: For Liblouis version 3.5.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

BDU:2020-01878

CVE-2018-11440

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_2819-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1160-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1160-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2780-1

SUSE-SU-2018_2780-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0795-1

USN-3669-1

Affected Products

Liblouis

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 39

• 🔥 https://github.com/Edward-L/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/liblouis · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2780-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00038.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:0795-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3669-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3669-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3669-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11577 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11440 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11440 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2019:1160-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-01878 · Security Note