Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-10197  

The search_make_new function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via an empty hostname.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

The search_make_new function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via an empty hostname.

AVG-214 libevent 2.0.22-2 2.0.22-3 Low Fixed

https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/ec65c42052d95d2c23d1d837136d1cf1d9ecef9e
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/332