Bug 661150 – <dev-libs/liblouis-3.10.0: Multiple vulnerabilities

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2018-07-14 16:09:10 UTC]

CVE-2018-12085 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12085):
  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-2018-11685 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11685):
  Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function
  compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c.

CVE-2018-11684 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11684):
  Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function includeFile
  in compileTranslationTable.c.

CVE-2018-11683 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11683):
  Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars
  in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440.

CVE-2018-11577 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11577):
  Liblouis 3.5.0 has a Segmentation fault in lou_logPrint in logging.c.

CVE-2018-11440 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11440):
  Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars
  in compileTranslationTable.c.

CVE-2018-11410 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11410):
  An issue was discovered in Liblouis 3.5.0. A invalid free in the compileRule
  function in compileTranslationTable.c allows remote attackers to cause a
  denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
  impact.


Maintainers could you confirm if we are affected? Last stable version in tree is 2.5.3, far behind 3.5.0 I guess.

Thank you,

[Comment 1 William Hubbs 2019-08-21 16:59:33 UTC]

There are not many reverse dependencies for this, so I suggest we go
ahead and start work on stabilizing 3.10.0 so we can get the older
version out of the tree.

[Comment 2 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2019-08-21 17:52:51 UTC]

@arches, please stabilize.

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-08-21 21:07:19 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-08-22 11:49:09 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-08-22 22:01:34 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-08-22 22:03:36 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-08-23 10:05:14 UTC]

alpha stable

[Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo 2019-08-23 10:05:53 UTC]

ia64 stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please vote.

[Comment 9 Larry the Git Cow 2019-08-31 18:15:02 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3eb861b01356813e65b4e39f22e7a23c4029ac68

commit 3eb861b01356813e65b4e39f22e7a23c4029ac68
Author:     William Hubbs <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2019-08-31 18:12:57 +0000
Commit:     William Hubbs <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2019-08-31 18:14:36 +0000

    dev-libs/liblouis:  remove old version
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/661150
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.69, Repoman-2.3.16
    Signed-off-by: William Hubbs <[e-mail]>

 dev-libs/liblouis/Manifest              |  1 -
 dev-libs/liblouis/liblouis-2.5.3.ebuild | 64 ---------------------------------
 2 files changed, 65 deletions(-)