CVE-2014-8184

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-121 CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Liblouis	liblouis	2.5.x before 2.5.4

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-8184Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/425Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-8184Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/425Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 2, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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