CVE-2016-10195
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 5.9%libevent - security update
Published: 3/15/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The name_parse function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving the label_len variable, which triggers an out-of-bounds stack read.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/libeventfrom 0, < 2.1.8-r0
- Debian/libeventfrom 0, < 2.0.21-stable-3
- Debian/libeventfrom 0, < 2.0.19-stable-3+deb7u2
- Debian/libeventfrom 0, < 2.0.21-stable-2+deb8u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |