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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-10196: firefox security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-10196: firefox security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2017
Modified
01/18/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-firefox

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