CVE-2016-2090

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3