Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-11410 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
liblouis
canonical
CWE-416
critical
nessus

Summary

An issue was discovered in Liblouis 3.5.0. A invalid free in the compileRule function in compileTranslationTable.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-3669-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-11410) It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11440) It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11577). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id110322
    published2018-06-05
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110322
    titleUbuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.10 / 18.04 LTS : liblouis vulnerabilities (USN-3669-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2019-1160.NASL
    descriptionThis update for liblouis fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-17294: Fixed an out of bounds read in matchCurrentInput function which could allow a remote attacker to cause Denail of Service (bsc#1109319). - CVE-2018-11410: Fixed an invalid free in the compileRule function in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1094685) - CVE-2018-11440: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095189) - CVE-2018-11577: Fixed a segmentation fault in lou_logPrint in logging.c (bsc#1095945) - CVE-2018-11683: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440) (bsc#1095827) - CVE-2018-11684: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095826) - CVE-2018-11685: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function compileHyphenation() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095825) - CVE-2018-12085: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440) (bsc#1097103) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id123815
    published2019-04-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123815
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : liblouis (openSUSE-2019-1160)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2019-0795-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for liblouis fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-17294: Fixed an out of bounds read in matchCurrentInput function which could allow a remote attacker to cause Denail of Service (bsc#1109319). CVE-2018-11410: Fixed an invalid free in the compileRule function in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1094685) CVE-2018-11440: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095189) CVE-2018-11577: Fixed a segmentation fault in lou_logPrint in logging.c (bsc#1095945) CVE-2018-11683: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440) (bsc#1095827) CVE-2018-11684: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in the function includeFile() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095826) CVE-2018-11685: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function compileHyphenation() in compileTranslationTable.c (bsc#1095825) CVE-2018-12085: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() in compileTranslationTable.c (different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440) (bsc#1097103) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id123501
    published2019-03-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123501
    titleSUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2019:0795-1)