CVE-2016-10196

Priority
Description
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.
Notes
Package
Upstream:released (53.0)
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:released (53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:DNE (trusty was released [53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1])
Patches:
Package
Upstream:released (2.0.21-stable-3)
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:released (2.0.21-stable-2ubuntu0.16.04.1)
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:released (2.0.21-stable-1ubuntu1.14.04.2)
Patches:
Upstream:https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5
Package
Priority: Low
Upstream:released (52.1.1)
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:released (1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:DNE (trusty was released [1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1])
Patches:
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Updated: 2022-04-13 12:10:41 UTC (commit f411bd370d482ef4385c4e751d121a4055fbc009)