CVE-2017-5437
Description
This CVE is under investigation by Red Hat Product Security.
Statement
This CVE was found to be a duplicate, details from Mozilla project are given below:
Three vulnerabilities were reported in the Libevent library that allow for out-of-bounds reads and denial of service (DoS) attacks. These were fixed in the Libevent library and these changes were ported to Mozilla code.
These issues use CVE ids: CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196 and CVE-2016-10197
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| Attack Vector | Network | N/A | N/A |
| Attack Complexity | High | N/A | N/A |
| Privileges Required | None | N/A | N/A |
| User Interaction | None | N/A | N/A |
| Scope | Unchanged | N/A | N/A |
| Confidentiality | None | N/A | N/A |
| Integrity Impact | None | N/A | N/A |
| Availability Impact | None | N/A | N/A |
Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Huzaifa Sidhpurwala as the original reporter.
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