Vulnerability CVE-2016-2090
Published: 2017-01-13

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Libbsd -> Libbsd 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13
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