CVE-2016-10196

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

5%p92

Published

Mar 15, 2017 (Mar 15, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: debian libevent project mozilla
Products: debian linux, libevent, firefox, thunderbird
Weakness: CWE-787
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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