CVE-2016-2090
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2090
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2090.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2090
- Downstream
- Published
- 2017-01-13T16:59:00.167Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-12T22:15:26.440878Z
- Severity
-
- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
Off-by-one vulnerability in the fgetwln function in libbsd before 0.8.2 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.
- References
-
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7
Affected packages
Git /
Database specific
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2090.json"
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