Security Advisory

CVE-2018-17294

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-09-21 06:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 10:47:04
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The matchCurrentInput function inside lou_translateString.c of Liblouis prior to 3.7 does not check the input strings 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.