CVE-2018-11685: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
  • Liblouis Liblouis: version 3.5.0 only
  • Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only

Published 2018-06-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.