Denial of Service Vulnerability in libevent's search_make_new Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in libevent's search_make_new Function

CVE-2016-10197 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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