vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-10197: ELSA-2017-1201: thunderbird security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 3, 2016
Added
May 8, 2017
Modified
Dec 3, 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.
An out of bounds read vulnerability was found in libevent in the search_make_new function. If an attacker could cause an application using libevent to attempt resolving an empty hostname, an out of bounds read could occur possibly leading to a crash.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-thunderbird
Title
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