| Name | CVE-2014-8184 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 880621 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| liblouis (PTS) | jessie | 2.5.3-3+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.0.0-3+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster | 3.8.0-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.16.0-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.24.0-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.32.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| liblouis | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| liblouis | source | jessie | 2.5.3-3+deb8u1 | | | |
| liblouis | source | (unstable) | 2.6.2-1 | | | 880621 |
Notes
[wheezy] - liblouis <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 2.5.0)
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/425
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492701
Introduced by: https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/26ca8619a29951d6b4acf8b7a732a8b35e4e7bd3 (liblouis_2_5_0)
Fixed in merge: https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/dc97ef791a4fae9da11592c79f9f79e010596e0c#diff-7ade83431f79d2120c82012aee3b05c9L4524
CVE is for several buffer overflows in the findTable function, cf.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492701#c7