Bug#901202: liblouis: CVE-2018-12085: stack-based buffer overflow compileTranslationTable.c in 1130 in parseChars

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: liblouis
Version: 3.5.0-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/595

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for liblouis.

CVE-2018-12085[0]:
| Liblouis 3.6.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function
| parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than
| CVE-2018-11440.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12085
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12085

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore