Out-of-Bounds Affecting libbsd package, versions <0.7.0-2+deb8u1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.18% (85th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBBSD-371223
- published 13 Jan 2017
- disclosed 13 Jan 2017
Introduced: 13 Jan 2017
CVE-2016-2090 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
libbsd
to version 0.7.0-2+deb8u1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libbsd
package and not the libbsd
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2090
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2090
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13
- 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
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-2090
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/