UnratedFix available
libevent: Fix of 2 CVEs
Type: advisorySources: OSV
- CVE-2016-10195: fix an out-of-bounds stack read in the name_parse function - CVE-2016-10196: fix a stack-based buffer overflow in the evutil_parse_sockaddr_port function - CVE-2016-10197: fix DoS via an empty hostname in the search_make_new function
- Products
- libevent, libevent-devel, libevent-doc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.0.21-4.el7.tuxcare.els1
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2016-10197
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
- CVE-2016-10195: fix an out-of-bounds stack read in the name_parse function - CVE-2016-10196: fix a stack-based buffer overflow in the evutil_parse_sockaddr_port function - CVE-2016-10197: fix DoS via an empty hostname in the search_make_new function
osv:CLSA-2026-1792440745
libevent
Fixed versions: 2.0.21-4.el7.tuxcare.els1
libevent-devel
Fixed versions: 2.0.21-4.el7.tuxcare.els1
libevent-doc
Fixed versions: 2.0.21-4.el7.tuxcare.els1
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CLSA-2026-1792440745",
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"modified": "2026-10-26T09:31:59.479830452Z",
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10196",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10197"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 449280,
"published_at": "2026-10-19T20:12:37+00:00"
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