Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10197

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-15 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 03:14:42
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.