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CVE-2014-8184

Publication date 31 December 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

A vulnerability was found in liblouis, versions 2.5.x before 2.5.4. A stack-based buffer overflow was found in findTable() in liblouis. An attacker could create a malicious file that would cause applications that use liblouis (such as Orca) to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
liblouis 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2

Notes

leosilva

according to rhel notes it affects only old versions of liblouis before 2.5.4. In our case it affects only trusty.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
liblouis

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H