libevent: Out-of-bounds read in search_make_new()

An out of bounds read vulnerability was found in libevent in the searchmakenew function. If an attacker could cause an application using libevent to attempt resolving an empty hostname, an out of bounds read could occur possibly leading to a crash...

CVE-2016-10197

The searchmakenew function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read via an empty hostname...

CVE-2016-10197

The searchmakenew function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read via an empty hostname...