USN-3672-1: Liblouis vulnerabilities
liblouis vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 17.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in Liblouis.
Software Description
- liblouis - Braille translation library - utilities
Details
Henri Salo discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11683, CVE-2018-11684, CVE-2018-11685)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- liblouis-bin - 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2
- liblouis14 - 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.2
- Ubuntu 17.10
- liblouis-bin - 3.0.0-3ubuntu1.2
- liblouis12 - 3.0.0-3ubuntu1.2
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- liblouis-bin - 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.3
- liblouis9 - 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.3
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- liblouis-bin - 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.4
- liblouis2 - 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.4
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2kS4yJC