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CVE-2017-15101

Published: 27 July 2018

A missing patch for a stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() was found in Red Hat version of liblouis before 2.5.4. An attacker could cause a denial of service condition or potentially even arbitrary code execution.

Notes

AuthorNote
leosilva
our fix already incorporate Samuel`s patch
as CVE-2014-8184 it only affects versions before 2.5.4

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
liblouis
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable
(3.0.0-3ubuntu1)
trusty
Released (2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2)
upstream
Released
xenial Not vulnerable
(2.6.4-2ubuntu0.1)
zesty Not vulnerable
(3.0.0-3ubuntu0.2)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H