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CVE-2016-10196 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (firefox, libevent, thunderbird), 17 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 16, ignored 1.
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.