Critical severity · published Jul 27, 2018
CVE-2017-15101
A missing patch for a stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() was found in Red Hat version of liblouis before 2.5.4
9.8
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 74% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Aus · Redhat
7.4 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Eus · Redhat
7.4; 7.5 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
LI
Liblouis · Liblouis
before 2.5.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15101
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15101
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3384
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15101
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