liblouis-2.5.2-11.el7

Liblouis is an open source braille translator and back-translator named in honor of Louis Braille. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. New languages can easily be added through tables that support a rule or dictionary based approach. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg).

Security Fix(es):

* Multiple flaws were found in the processing of translation tables in liblouis. An attacker could crash or potentially execute arbitrary code using malicious translation tables. (CVE-2014-8184, CVE-2017-13738, CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13741, CVE-2017-13742, CVE-2017-13743, CVE-2017-13744)

The CVE-2014-8184 issue was discovered by Raphael Sanchez Prudencio (Asianux).

CVE-2014-8184
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CVE-2017-13738
There is an illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function in
compileTranslationTable.c:346 in Liblouis 3.2.0.
CVE-2017-13740
There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in
the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead
to denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.
CVE-2017-13741
There is a use-after-free in the function compileBrailleIndicator() in
compileTranslationTable.c in Liblouis 3.2.0 that will lead to a remote
denial of service attack.
CVE-2017-13742
There is a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in
the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c, that will lead
to a remote denial of service attack.
CVE-2017-13743
There is a buffer overflow in Liblouis 3.2.0, triggered in the function
_lou_showString() in utils.c, that will lead to a remote denial of
service attack.
CVE-2017-13744
There is an illegal address access in the function _lou_getALine() in
compileTranslationTable.c:343 in Liblouis 3.2.0.