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.

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.

liblouis: stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() liblouis: Illegal address access in the _lou_getALine function liblouis: Stack-buffer overflow in the parseChars() function liblouis: Use-after-free in the function compileBrailleIndicator() liblouis: Stack-buffer overflow in the function includeFile() liblouis: Buffer overflow in the function _lou_showString() liblouis: Illegal address access in the _lou_getALine() function

Security update for liblouis

Affected: Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: liblouis

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.