CVE-2016-10196

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
Related
Published
2017-03-15T15:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-10T00:18:17.095377Z
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 evutilparsesockaddrport 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 ipas_string argument.

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

Affected versions

release-1.*

release-1.1b

release-2.*

release-2.0.1-alpha
release-2.0.10-stable
release-2.0.11-stable
release-2.0.12-stable
release-2.0.13-stable
release-2.0.14-stable
release-2.0.15-stable
release-2.0.16-stable
release-2.0.17-stable
release-2.0.18-stable
release-2.0.19-stable
release-2.0.20-stable
release-2.0.21-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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