7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2016-10195

Published: 15/03/2017 Updated: 31/01/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The name_parse function in evdns.c in libevent prior to 2.1.6-beta allows remote malicious users to have unspecified impact via vectors involving the label_len variable, which triggers an out-of-bounds stack read.

Vulnerability Trend

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libevent project libevent

debian debian linux 8.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #854092 Multiple security issues in libevent Package: libevent; Maintainer for libevent is Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debianorg>; Reported by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpuorg> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 23:45:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security Found in version 2021-stable-2 Fixed ...
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Synopsis Critical: firefox security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, wh ...
Several security issues were fixed in libevent ...
Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird ...
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libevent, an asynchronous event notification library They would lead to Denial Of Service via application crash, or remote code execution For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2021-stable-2+deb8u1 For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been f ...
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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2017-11 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 459 Announced April 19, 2017 Impact critical Products Firefox ESR Fixed in Firefox ESR 459 ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2017-10 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 53 Announced April 19, 2017 Impact critical Products Firefox Fixed in Firefox 53 ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2017-13 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 521 Announced April 30, 2017 Impact critical Products Thunderbird Fixed in Thunderbird 521 ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2017-12 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 521 Announced April 19, 2017 Impact critical Products Firefox ESR Fixed in Firefox ESR 521 ...