liblouis: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202301-06

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in liblouis, the worst of which could result in denial of service.

Affected packages

dev-libs/liblouis on all architectures
Affected versions < 3.22.0
Unaffected versions >= 3.22.0

Background

liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in liblouis. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All liblouis users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/liblouis-3.22.0"
 

References

Release date
January 11, 2023

Latest revision
January 11, 2023: 1

Severity
low

Exploitable
remote

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