UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10196

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10196

    Published: 31 Dec 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-10196

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10196, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/17, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3228-1, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3278-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10196

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High