CVE-2018-11684

Publication date 4 June 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function includeFile in compileTranslationTable.c.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
liblouis 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2
17.10 artful
Fixed 3.0.0-3ubuntu1.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.4

Patch details

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Package Patch details
liblouis

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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