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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2090 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/ CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/ CVE, MITRE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-2090
NVD Published Date:
01/13/2017
NVD Last Modified:
04/19/2025
Source:
MITRE