vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2090: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 13, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Off-by-one vulnerability in the fgetwln function in libbsd before 0.8.2 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libbsd
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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