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CVE-2016-10196

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CVE-2016-10196

Published: Mar 15, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

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