Bug 1418612 – CVE-2016-10197 libevent: Out-of-bounds read in search_make_new()

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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()

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-10197

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1418616
Blocks:	1418615
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Reported:	2017-02-02 05:36 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-05-08 02:46 EDT (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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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.
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Last Closed:	2017-03-24 00:59:27 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:1201	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2017-05-08 06:45:45 EDT

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-02 05:36:27 EST

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 05:41:40 EST

Created libevent tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1418616]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-08 02:46:25 EDT

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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