CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-10196.md

CVE-2016-10196

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.

POC

Reference

• https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5
• https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/329acc18a0768c21ba22522f01a5c7f46cacc4d5
• https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/318
• https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/318
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/

Github

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