PT-2018-5764 · Red Hat+2 · Liblouis+3

Published 2017-11-24 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-15101

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Red Hat liblouis versions prior to 2.5.4

Description: A missing patch for a stack-based buffer overflow in the findTable() function was found. This issue could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition or potentially even execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 2.5.4, update to version 2.5.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the findTable() function until a patch is applied.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Stack Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-121

Related Identifiers

CESA-2017_3384

CVE-2017-15101

RHSA-2017:3384

RHSA-2017_3384

SUSE-SU-2017:3078-1

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Liblouis

References · 23

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15101 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3384 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15101 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15101 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15101 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15101 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15101 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:3078-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-3384.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15101 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492701#c12 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511023 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062458 · Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2017-December/059603.html · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1067336 · Note