Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in Liblouis's matchCurrentInput Function

CVE-2018-17294 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The matchCurrentInput function inside lou_translateString.c of Liblouis prior to 3.7 does not check the input string's length, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via out-of-bounds read) by crafting an input file with certain translation dictionaries.

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