CVE-2016-10196

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
2017-03-15T15:59:00.437Z
Modified
2026-07-07T08:45:40.568926927Z
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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.1.5"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "libevent_project:libevent"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "45.9.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "53.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "mozilla:firefox"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "52.1.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "mozilla:thunderbird",
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "52.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "52.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:52.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "mozilla:firefox"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libevent/libevent

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libevent/libevent
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
a73fb2f443ebf9687ee6ca81a6401d1f3751683f
Fixed
329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.1.6-beta"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "DESCRIPTION",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

release-1.*
release-1.1b
release-2.*
release-2.0.1-alpha
release-2.0.10-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

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10196.json"