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CVE-2017-15101

liblouis: incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8184

Published Modified CWE 121, 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Oracle (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux 7liblouis, liblouis-devel, liblouis-doc and 2 more2.5.2-12.el7_4
ubuntu 14.04liblouis2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2
Show all 6 entries from 2 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux 7liblouis2.5.2-12.el7_4
Oracle Linux 7liblouis-devel2.5.2-12.el7_4
Oracle Linux 7liblouis-doc2.5.2-12.el7_4
Oracle Linux 7liblouis-python2.5.2-12.el7_4
Oracle Linux 7liblouis-utils2.5.2-12.el7_4
ubuntu 14.04liblouis2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2

References

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