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CVE-2016-10196

Published: 3/15/2017 Last updated: 8/6/2024 Reserved: 2/1/2017

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.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (3)

conf-libevent conf-mingw-w64-libevent-i686 conf-mingw-w64-libevent-x86_64

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems

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