A missing patch for a stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() was found in Red Hat version of liblouis before 2.5.4.

Published 8 y ago 2018-07-27 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.8

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.5%

percentile 75%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.52% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	7.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
CNA	3.0	7.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	3.0	9.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	7.5	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

Liblouis liblouis

Classification

Weakness

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15101 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:3384 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-15101
NVD: CVE-2017-15101

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