CVE-2017-15101

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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	high

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	3.0.0-3+deb9u4	fixed
	buster	3.8.0-2	fixed
	bullseye	3.11.0-3	fixed
	sid	3.12.0-2	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