CVE-2016-2090

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/28/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00036.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KJE5SPSX7HEKLZ34LUTZLXWPEL2K353/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIQKQ42Z7553D46QY3IMIQKS52QTNIHY/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-13Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jan 13, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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