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SUSE: CVE-2016-10196: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-10196: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/26/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the evutil_parse_sockaddr_port function in evutil.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via vectors involving a long string in brackets in the ip_as_string argument.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-firefox-libffi4
  • suse-upgrade-firefox-libstdc-6
  • suse-upgrade-libevent-1_4-2
  • suse-upgrade-libevent-2_0-5
  • suse-upgrade-libevent-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libfreebl3
  • suse-upgrade-libfreebl3-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libfreebl3-x86
  • suse-upgrade-libsoftokn3
  • suse-upgrade-libsoftokn3-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libsoftokn3-x86
  • suse-upgrade-mozilla-nss
  • suse-upgrade-mozilla-nss-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-mozilla-nss-devel
  • suse-upgrade-mozilla-nss-tools
  • suse-upgrade-mozilla-nss-x86
  • suse-upgrade-mozillafirefox
  • suse-upgrade-mozillafirefox-branding-sle
  • suse-upgrade-mozillafirefox-branding-sled
  • suse-upgrade-mozillafirefox-devel
  • suse-upgrade-mozillafirefox-translations
  • suse-upgrade-mozillafirefox-translations-common

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:1669-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2235-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0200-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0263-1
  • DLA-824-1
  • DSA-3789
  • CVE-2016-10196
  • USN-3228-1
  • USN-3278-1
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