CVE-2016-10197

Published March 15th, 2017

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CVSS v3

7.5

HIGH

CVSS v2

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

The search_make_new function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via an empty hostname.

libevent/libevent

Event notification library

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