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CVE-2016-10197

Description

The search_make_new function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via an empty hostname.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
1.864

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-2477-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.16-stable-1ubuntu0.2_i386.debLinux
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-2477-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.16-stable-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.debLinux
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-3228-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.16-stable-1ubuntu0.2_i386.debLinux
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-3228-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.16-stable-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.debLinux
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-3228-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.21-stable-1ubuntu1.14.04.2_i386.debLinux
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-3228-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.21-stable-1ubuntu1.14.04.2_amd64.debLinux
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-3228-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.21-stable-2ubuntu0.16.04.1_i386.debLinux
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-3228-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.21-stable-2ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-3228-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.21-stable-2ubuntu0.16.10.1_i386.debLinux
Asynchronous event notification library (USN-3228-1) libevent-2.0-5_2.0.21-stable-2ubuntu0.16.10.1_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:0200-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) libevent-2_0-5-2.0.21-6.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:0200-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) libevent-2_0-5-debuginfo-2.0.21-6.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:0200-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ) libevent-debugsource-2.0.21-6.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:0263-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 ) libevent-1_4-2-1.4.5-24.24.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
Out-of-bounds Read Vulnerability (CVE-2016-10197)NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234