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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-10195): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-10195): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/14/2017
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

The name_parse function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving the label_len variable, which triggers an out-of-bounds stack read.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libevent-2-0-5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird

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