MFSA2017-10 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 53 (CVE-2016-10196)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
03/15/2017
07/25/2018
07/12/2018
07/12/2018
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)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-53_0
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