Bug 1418612 (CVE-2016-10197)

Summary:	CVE-2016-10197 libevent: Out-of-bounds read in search_make_new()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, dmoppert, gecko-bugs-nobody, jfeeney, jhorak, rdma-dev-team, steved, stransky, tpopela
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Doc Text:	An out of bounds read vulnerability was found in libevent in the search_make_new function. If an attacker could cause an application using libevent to attempt resolving an empty hostname, an out of bounds read could occur possibly leading to a crash.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1418616
Bug Blocks:	1418615

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-02 10:36:27 UTC

A vulnerability was found in libevent. There is an out-of-bounds read in the DNS code of Libevent.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/332

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/ec65c42052d95d2c23d1d837136d1cf1d9ecef9e

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-02-02 10:41:40 UTC

Created libevent tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1418616]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-08 06:46:25 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1201 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201