| Name | CVE-2016-2090 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2052-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libbsd (PTS) | bullseye | 0.11.3-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.11.7-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.12.2-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| libbsd | source | squeeze | (not affected) | | | |
| libbsd | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| libbsd | source | jessie | 0.7.0-2+deb8u1 | | DLA-2052-1 | |
| libbsd | source | (unstable) | 0.8.2-1 | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - libbsd <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[squeeze] - libbsd <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Not used anywhere in Debian according to codesearch.debian.net
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881
Fixed by: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7 (0.8.2)
Introduced by: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=a97ce513e031b29a47965b740be14fb9a84277fc (0.5.0)