CVE-2018-17294

Published September 21st, 2018

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

4.3

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

The matchCurrentInput function inside lou_translateString.c of Liblouis prior to 3.7 does not check the input string's length, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via out-of-bounds read) by crafting an input file with certain translation dictionaries.

liblouis/liblouis

Open-source braille translator and back-translator.

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