CVE-2016-10196

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10196
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10196.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-10196
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
BELL (1)
CLSA (1)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (2)
RHSA (3)
SUSE (4)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
SUSE (4)
Published
2017-03-15T15:59:00Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:42:56Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libevent/libevent

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libevent/libevent
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
a73fb2f443ebf9687ee6ca81a6401d1f3751683f
Fixed
329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5
Database specific
Show details 
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Affected versions

release-1.*
release-1.1b
release-2.*
release-2.0.1-alpha
release-2.0.10-stable
release-2.0.3-alpha
release-2.0.4-alpha
release-2.0.5-beta
release-2.0.6-rc
release-2.0.7-rc
release-2.0.8-rc
release-2.0.9-rc
release-2.1.1-alpha
release-2.1.2-alpha
release-2.1.3-alpha
release-2.1.4-alpha
release-2.1.5-beta

Database specific

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