ubuntu · CVE-2016-10195

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-12-31 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:52:55 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-10195 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (firefox, libevent, thunderbird), 17 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 15, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.

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.

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