libevent

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Description Event notification library
Version 2.1.12-4 [core]

Resolved

Group Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-214 2.0.22-2 2.0.22-3 Low Fixed
Issue Group Severity Remote Type Description
CVE-2016-10197 AVG-214 Low Yes Denial of service
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.