CVE-2014-8184

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-08-02

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119, CWE-121

Affected products

• Liblouis (Liblouis)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-8184
• https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/425