Hi Samuel, On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:00:49AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello > > Salvatore Bonaccorso, le jeu. 24 mai 2018 16:16:16 +0200, a ecrit: > > The following vulnerability was published for liblouis, it was > > reported at [1], not sure if it was forwarded to upstream, can you > > double check that? > > I reported it to upstream and is now fixed there. I have uploaded a > fixed package to unstable as version 3.5.0-2. > > I have prepared a stable upload in > [email protected]:a11y-team/liblouis.git in the debian-stretch branch > > The buffer overflow can be exploited only if one is able to feed the > content of a braille table, which is not normally something that is > possible, usually only the content of the text to be transcribed to > braille can be fed, so I don't see any situation where this can really > be a security concern, so I guess a simple stable upload would be > enough?
I agree, if you can prepare an update to be included in the upcoming point release for stretch that would be great! Thanks for all your work. Regards, Salvatore
