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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-2090: libbsd: Arbitrary code execution

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-2090: libbsd: Arbitrary code execution

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/13/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-libbsd

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