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MFSA2017-10 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 53 (CVE-2016-10197)

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 15, 2017
Added
Jul 12, 2018
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

The search_make_new function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via an empty hostname.

Solution

mozilla-firefox-upgrade-53_0

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