PT-2018-3476 · Liblouis+6 · Liblouis+6

Henri Salo · Published 2018-06-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-12085

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 3.6.0

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. The vulnerability is associated with a buffer overflow operation in memory.

Recommendations: For Liblouis version 3.6.0, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the parseChars function until a patch is available. 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

ALSA-2020:1708

BDU:2020-01883

CESA-2020_1708

CVE-2018-12085

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_2819-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1160-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1160-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10953-1

RHSA-2020:1708

RHSA-2020_1708

RLSA-2020:1708

SUSE-SU-2018:2780-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0795-1

USN-3782-1

Affected Products

Almalinux

Centos

Liblouis

Red Hat

Rocky Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 56

• 🔥 https://github.com/Edward-L/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/liblouis · Exploit
• https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/595 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12085 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RLSA-2020:1708 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12085 · Security Note
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3782-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12085 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALSA-2020:1708 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12085 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2020:1708 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00038.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17294 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10953-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-1708.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2780-1 · Vendor Advisory