CVE-2016-2090

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-01-13

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Libbsd (Freedesktop)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5
• https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZL…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQ…
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/