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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882817
Category:CentOS Local Security Checks
Title:CentOS Update for liblouis CESA-2017:3384 centos7
Summary:Check the version of liblouis
Description:Summary:
Check the version of liblouis

Vulnerability Insight:
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):

* A missing fix for one stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() for
CVE-2014-8184 was discovered. An attacker could cause denial of service or
potentially allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-15101)

Red Hat would like to thank Samuel Thibault for reporting this issue.

Affected Software/OS:
liblouis on CentOS 7

Solution:
Please Install the Updated Packages.

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-15101
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2017:3384
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3384
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-8184
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-8184
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/425
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