CVE-2016-10196
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-03-15 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:14
Severity ?
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the evutil_parse_sockaddr_port function in evutil.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via vectors involving a long string in brackets in the ip_as_string argument.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3789Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/17Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96014Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1104Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343453Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/release-2.1.6-beta/ChangeLogRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/318Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-01Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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