gsd-2016-10196
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:21
Details
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.
Aliases
Aliases



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