CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2090
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 24
• fedoraproject fedora 25
• freedesktop libbsd (< 0.8.2)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/ Third Party Advisory