High severity · published Aug 2, 2019
CVE-2014-8184
A vulnerability was found in liblouis, versions 2.5.x before 2.5.4
7.8
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Liblouis · Liblouis
2.5.0 before 2.5.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8184
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8184
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-8184
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/425
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