ALAS-2024-2471

Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2471
Advisory Release Date: 2024-02-15 03:52 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-02-19 17:36 Pacific
Severity: Medium
Issue Overview:

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a Segmentation fault in lou_logPrint in logging.c. (CVE-2018-11577)

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function includeFile in compileTranslationTable.c. (CVE-2018-11684)

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c. (CVE-2018-11685)

Liblouis 3.6.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440. (CVE-2018-12085)


Affected Packages:

liblouis


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update liblouis to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    liblouis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    liblouis-devel-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    liblouis-utils-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    liblouis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.i686
    liblouis-devel-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.i686
    liblouis-utils-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.i686
    liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.i686

noarch:
    python2-louis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    python3-louis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    liblouis-doc-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    liblouis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    liblouis-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    liblouis-devel-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    liblouis-utils-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    liblouis-debuginfo-2.6.2-21.amzn2.0.1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-11577, CVE-2018-11684, CVE-2018-11685, CVE-2018-12085

Mitre: CVE-2018-11577, CVE-2018-11684, CVE-2018-11685, CVE-2018-12085