Out-of-Bounds Affecting libbsd package, versions [,0.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.21% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBBSD-2318783
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed13 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-2090  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libbsd to version 0.8.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1