{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15101","details":"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.","modified":"2025-07-18T16:44:10Z","published":"2018-07-27T20:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-15101"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15101"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492701#c12"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511023"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15101"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"liblouis","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/liblouis@2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2"}]}],"versions":["2.5.3-2","2.5.3-2ubuntu1","2.5.3-2ubuntu1.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"liblouis-bin","binary_version":"2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"liblouis-data","binary_version":"2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"liblouis-dev","binary_version":"2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"liblouis2","binary_version":"2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"python-louis","binary_version":"2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"python3-louis","binary_version":"2.5.3-2ubuntu1.2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15101.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}