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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-8025 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3474-1 Liblouis vulnerability
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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Updated: 2024-08-06T13:10:50.898Z

Reserved: 2014-10-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-8184

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-08-02T13:15:11.217

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:18:43.993

Link: CVE-2014-8184

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-10-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-8184 - Bugzilla

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