[SECURITY] [DSA 3789-1] libevent security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-3789-1 [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/ Sebastien Delafond
February 15, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : libevent
CVE ID : CVE-2016-10195 CVE-2016-10196 CVE-2016-10197
Debian Bug : 854092

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 the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.21-stable-2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.21-stable-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libevent packages.

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