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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10196

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 libevent

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.21-stable-3"}]}]

Debian:13 libevent

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.21-stable-3"}]}]

Debian:14 libevent

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.21-stable-3"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org