CVE-2016-2090

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

Off-by-one vulnerability in the fgetwln function in libbsd before 0.8.2 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published1/13/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxdebian:debian_linuxfedoraproject:fedorafreedesktop:libbsd

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5(cve@mitre.org)

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881(cve@mitre.org)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13(cve@mitre.org)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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