CVE-2016-10196 in libevent

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 02/01/2017
• Disclosure: 03/15/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.9
• EPSS: 0.00747
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10196
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10196
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-10196/