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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2018-11410 json

An issue was discovered in Liblouis 3.5.0.

published 2018-05-24 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-3441

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • liblouis Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.5.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11410

  • liblouis Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11410

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • liblouis SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 3.3.0-4.5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:0795-1

  • liblouis openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.16.1-1.5
  • liblouis openSUSE Leap 15.0 3.3.0-lp150.3.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10953-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1160-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-11410 updated cvss 6.3

liblouis: invalid free in compileRule function in compileTranslationTable.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 liblouis, python3-louis
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 liblouis, liblouis-utils, liblouis-python
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

4.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1582024 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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