CVE-2017-15101

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-11-02
CWE:
CWE-121
Bugzilla:
1511023: CVE-2017-15101 liblouis: incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8184
A missing fix for one stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() for CVE-2014-8184 was discovered. An attacker could cause denial of service or potentially allow arbitrary code execution.

Find out more about CVE-2017-15101 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 7.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (liblouis) RHSA-2017:3384 2017-12-05

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Samuel Thibault for reporting this issue.

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