USN-3672-1: Liblouis vulnerabilities
6 June 2018
Several security issues were fixed in Liblouis.
Releases
Packages
- 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
Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.