Bug 1443326 (CVE-2017-5437)

Summary: REJECTED CVE-2017-5437 Mozilla: Vulnerabilities in libevent library (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-04-19 06:19:36 UTC
Three vulnerabilities in the <code>libevent</code> library allowing for out-of-bounds reads and denial of service (DoS) attacks.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-20 08:23:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:1104 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1104

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-21 00:52:08 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1106 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106

Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-26 06:40:12 UTC
This CVE was rejected by Mitre.

Name: CVE-2017-5437
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5437
Assigned: 20170113

** REJECT **
DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.  ConsultIDs: CVE-2016-10195,
CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2016-10197.  Reason: This candidate is a duplicate
of CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, and CVE-2016-10197.  Notes: All CVE
users should reference CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, and/or
CVE-2016-10197 instead of this candidate.  All references and
descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent accidental
usage.

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-05-02 03:49:24 UTC
Mozilla replaced this CVE with the following:

Three vulnerabilities were reported in the Libevent library that allow for out-of-bounds reads and denial of service (DoS) attacks. These were fixed in the Libevent library and these changes were ported to Mozilla code.

These issues use CVE ids: CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196 and CVE-2016-10197

Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/#CVE-2016-10196

Comment 9 Doran Moppert 2020-06-17 06:23:03 UTC
Statement:

This CVE was found to be a duplicate, details from Mozilla project are given below:

Three vulnerabilities were reported in the Libevent library that allow for out-of-bounds reads and denial of service (DoS) attacks. These were fixed in the Libevent library and these changes were ported to Mozilla code.

These issues use CVE ids: CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196 and CVE-2016-10197