Bug 1418608 (CVE-2016-10195) - CVE-2016-10195 libevent: Stack-buffer overflow in the name_parse() function
Summary: CVE-2016-10195 libevent: Stack-buffer overflow in the name_parse() function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-10195
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1418616
Blocks: 1418615
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-02 10:30 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-25 15:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-24 04:59:36 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1201 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-05-08 10:45:45 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-02 10:30:38 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in libevent. The name_parse() function in libevent's DNS code is vulnerable to a buffer overread.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/317

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/96f64a022014a208105ead6c8a7066018449d86d
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-02-02 10:41:04 UTC 
Created libevent tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1418616]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-08 06:46:07 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
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