CVE-2018-11684

Publication date 4 June 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function includeFile in compileTranslationTable.c.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
liblouis	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2
	17.10 artful	Fixed 3.0.0-3ubuntu1.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.4

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
liblouis	Other: fb2bfce

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3672-1
Liblouis vulnerabilities
6 June 2018

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