Debian Security Advisory

DLA-824-1 libevent -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

15 Feb 2017

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 854092.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2016-10197.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libevent, an asynchronous event notification library. They would lead to Denial Of Service via application crash, or remote code execution.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.19-stable-3+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libevent packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS