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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2023.6504
liblouis security update
10 November 2023
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: liblouis
Publisher: Red Hat
Operating System: Red Hat
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2023-26769 CVE-2023-26768 CVE-2023-26767
Original Bulletin:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6385
Comment: CVSS (Max): 7.5 CVE-2023-26769 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVSS Source: Red Hat
Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: liblouis security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:6385
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6385
Issue date: 2023-11-07
CVE Names: CVE-2023-26767 CVE-2023-26768 CVE-2023-26769
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1. Summary:
An update for liblouis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, i686, x86_64,
s390x, noarch
3. Description:
Liblouis is an open source braille translator and back-translator named in honor
of Louis Braille. It features support for computer and literary braille,
supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has
support for hyphenation. New languages can easily be added through tables that
support a rule or dictionary based approach. Liblouis also supports math braille
(Nemeth and Marburg).
Security Fix(es):
* liblouis: buffer overflow in lou_logFile function at logginc.c
(CVE-2023-26767)
* liblouis: buffer overflow in lou_setDataPath (CVE-2023-26768)
* liblouis: buffer overflow in Lou_Trace (CVE-2023-26769)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s)
listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in
this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2181135 - CVE-2023-26767 - buffer overflow in lou_logFile function at logginc.c
2181139 - CVE-2023-26768 - buffer overflow in lou_setDataPath
2181143 - CVE-2023-26769 - buffer overflow in Lou_Trace
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
aarch64:
liblouis-0:3.16.1-5.el9.aarch64.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.aarch64.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-0:3.16.1-5.el9.aarch64.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.aarch64.rpm
i686:
liblouis-0:3.16.1-5.el9.i686.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.i686.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-0:3.16.1-5.el9.i686.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.i686.rpm
ppc64le:
liblouis-0:3.16.1-5.el9.ppc64le.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.ppc64le.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-0:3.16.1-5.el9.ppc64le.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
liblouis-0:3.16.1-5.el9.s390x.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.s390x.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-0:3.16.1-5.el9.s390x.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.s390x.rpm
Source:
liblouis-0:3.16.1-5.el9.src.rpm
x86_64:
liblouis-0:3.16.1-5.el9.x86_64.rpm
liblouis-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.x86_64.rpm
liblouis-debugsource-0:3.16.1-5.el9.x86_64.rpm
liblouis-utils-debuginfo-0:3.16.1-5.el9.x86_64.rpm
noarch:
python3-louis-0:3.16.1-5.el9.noarch.rpm
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.3_release_notes/index
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