Bug 1418612 (CVE-2016-10197) - CVE-2016-10197 libevent: Out-of-bounds read in search_make_new()
Summary: CVE-2016-10197 libevent: Out-of-bounds read in search_make_new()
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-10197
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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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 10:36 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-25 15:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-24 04:59:27 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 10:36:27 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
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