Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-10195

The name_parse function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving the label_len variable, which triggers an out-of-bounds stack read.

  • Published: Mar 15, 2017
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2016-10195
  • Severity: Critical
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Critical
  • Score: 9.8
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
libevent_project / libevent - 2.1.5.x
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x