CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-6272

7.5 HIGH Published 2015-08-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-08-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 2.0.x before 2.0.22, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5-beta allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified impact via "insanely large inputs" to the (1) evbuffer_add, (2) evbuffer_expand, or (3) bufferevent_write function, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow or an infinite loop. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected versions. See CVE-2015-6525 for the functions that are only affected in 2.0 and later.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 7.0 • libevent project libevent 1.4.0 • libevent project libevent 1.4.1 • libevent project libevent 1.4.2 • libevent project libevent 1.4.3 • libevent project libevent 1.4.4 • libevent project libevent 1.4.5 • libevent project libevent 1.4.6 • libevent project libevent 1.4.7 • libevent project libevent 1.4.8 • libevent project libevent 1.4.9 • libevent project libevent 1.4.10 • libevent project libevent 1.4.11 • libevent project libevent 1.4.12 • libevent project libevent 1.4.13 • libevent project libevent 1.4.14 • libevent project libevent 2.0.1 • libevent project libevent 2.0.2 • libevent project libevent 2.0.3 • libevent project libevent 2.0.4 • libevent project libevent 2.0.5 • libevent project libevent 2.0.6 • libevent project libevent 2.0.7 • libevent project libevent 2.0.8 • libevent project libevent 2.0.9 • libevent project libevent 2.0.10 • libevent project libevent 2.0.11 • libevent project libevent 2.0.12 • libevent project libevent 2.0.13 • libevent project libevent 2.0.14 • libevent project libevent 2.0.15 • libevent project libevent 2.0.16 • libevent project libevent 2.0.17 • libevent project libevent 2.0.18 • libevent project libevent 2.0.19 • libevent project libevent 2.0.20 • libevent project libevent 2.0.21 • libevent project libevent 2.1.1 • libevent project libevent 2.1.2 • libevent project libevent 2.1.3 • libevent project libevent 2.1.4

Related

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References