CVE-2018-17294

Name	CVE-2018-17294
Description	The matchCurrentInput function inside lou_translateString.c of Liblouis prior to 3.7 does not check the input string's length, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via out-of-bounds read) by crafting an input file with certain translation dictionaries.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
liblouis (PTS)	buster	3.8.0-2	fixed
	bullseye	3.16.0-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	3.24.0-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
liblouis	source	(unstable)	3.7.0-1

Notes

[stretch] - liblouis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - liblouis <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/5e4089659bb49b3095fa541fa6387b4c40d7396e
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/635