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Medium RLSA-2023:6385 3 CVEs

Moderate: liblouis security update

Published Jul 5, 2026 · Updated Jul 5, 2026

Summary

Liblouis is an open source braille translator and back-translator named in honor of Louis Braille. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. New languages can easily be added through tables that support a rule or dictionary based approach. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg).

Security Fix(es):

* liblouis: buffer overflow in lou_logFile function at logginc.c (CVE-2023-26767)

* liblouis: buffer overflow in lou_setDataPath (CVE-2023-26768)

* liblouis: buffer overflow in Lou_Trace (CVE-2023-26769)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 liblouis 0:3.16.1-5.el9

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181135
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181139
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181143