| Name | CVE-2017-15101 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| liblouis (PTS) | jessie | 2.5.3-3+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.0.0-3+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster | 3.8.0-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.16.0-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.24.0-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.31.0-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| liblouis | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- liblouis <not-affected> (Incomplete fix not applied in Debian)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492701#c12
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511023