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Vulnerability details: VCID-76bw-4hry-77bq
Vulnerability ID VCID-76bw-4hry-77bq
Aliases CVE-2016-10195
Summary The name_parse function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving the label_len variable, which triggers an out-of-bounds stack read.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 4.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
System Score Found at
cvssv3 9.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-10195.json
epss 0.05932 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-10195
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-10195.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-10195
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10195
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10196
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10197
1418608 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418608
854092 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854092
GLSA-201705-01 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-01
RHSA-2017:1104 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1104
RHSA-2017:1106 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106
RHSA-2017:1201 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-10195.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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none

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.90793
EPSS Score 0.05932
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:40:13.772497+00:00 Debian Importer Import https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json 38.6.0