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CVE-2016-10196

CVE-2016-10196

EPSS 5.2%
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.
Affected products
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References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1104https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343453https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/release-2.1.6-beta/ChangeLoghttps://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/318https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-01https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/