CVE-2016-2090 (GCVE-0-2016-2090)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-13 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Off-by-one vulnerability in the fgetwln function in libbsd before 0.8.2 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.
References
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/
cve@mitre.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/
cve@mitre.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/ Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/ Third Party Advisory
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