CVE-2016-10196
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10196
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10196.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-10196
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-03-15T15:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-15T07:59:59.587356Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
Stack-based buffer overflow in the evutilparsesockaddrport 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 ipas_string argument.
- References
-
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3789
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/17
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96014
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1104
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343453
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/release-2.1.6-beta/ChangeLog
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/318
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-01
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/
Affected packages
Git / github.com/libevent/libevent
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/libevent/libevent
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
release-1.*
release-1.1b
release-2.*
release-2.0.1-alpha
release-2.0.10-stable
release-2.0.11-stable
release-2.0.12-stable
release-2.0.13-stable
release-2.0.14-stable
release-2.0.15-stable
release-2.0.16-stable
release-2.0.17-stable
release-2.0.18-stable
release-2.0.19-stable
release-2.0.20-stable
release-2.0.21-stable
release-2.0.3-alpha
release-2.0.4-alpha
release-2.0.5-beta
release-2.0.6-rc
release-2.0.7-rc
release-2.0.8-rc
release-2.0.9-rc
release-2.1.1-alpha
release-2.1.2-alpha
release-2.1.3-alpha
release-2.1.4-alpha
release-2.1.5-beta
Database specific
vanir_signatures
[
{
"digest": {
"line_hashes": [
"150950762839313443854128451278399393403",
"156066307512493417114155182452196228317",
"284286474332607600344405972541101859336",
"213310763593689227919181651068431535940",
"123729570573793670263357540440117772099",
"2756236998268050881793369281074788681",
"154193229467838285812135636366529729055",
"160986861496127588749569741143093255020",
"4382978669650176026683552117197548399"
],
"threshold": 0.9
},
"target": {
"file": "evutil.c"
},
"signature_type": "Line",
"id": "CVE-2016-10196-27612800",
"source": "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5",
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false
},
{
"digest": {
"length": 1955.0,
"function_hash": "243983321357223491177841111507201921392"
},
"target": {
"function": "evutil_parse_sockaddr_port",
"file": "evutil.c"
},
"signature_type": "Function",
"id": "CVE-2016-10196-e69ca298",
"source": "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5",
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false
}
]