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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2016-10196) ELSA-2017-1201: thunderbird security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2016-10196) ELSA-2017-1201: thunderbird security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/08/2017
Modified
11/23/2022

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-thunderbird

References

  • ELSA-2017-1201
  • DLA-824-1
  • DSA-3789
  • CVE-2016-10196
  • USN-3228-1
  • USN-3278-1

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