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.
Published: 2017-01-13
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 1.9% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2052-1 libbsd security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3195 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4243-1 libbsd vulnerabilities
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Freedesktop Libbsd
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:17:50.696Z

Reserved: 2016-01-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2090

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-13T16:59:00.167

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-2090

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