CVE-2016-10196
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.7%Published: 3/15/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/libeventfrom 0, < 2.1.8-r0
- Debian/libeventfrom 0, < 2.0.21-stable-3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |