CVE-2017-15101 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2017-15101

A missing patch for a stack-based buffer overflow in findTable()...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

liblouis
Vulnerable Versions:
2.5.4

Timeline

Official Publish: July 27th, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-121

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1055 Process Injection
Defense Evasion
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
Command and Control
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact