vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-10196

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 15, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025

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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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