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Red Hat: CVE-2016-10196: Critical: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-10196: Critical: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/02/2017
Modified
03/03/2021

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo

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