CVE-2014-8184

Publication date 31 December 2014

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
liblouis	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2

Notes

leosilva

according to rhel notes it affects only old versions of liblouis before 2.5.4. In our case it affects only trusty.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
liblouis	Other: dc97ef7

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3474-1
Liblouis vulnerability
6 November 2017