CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-6272
7.5 HIGH
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- 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
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Jan-2015/msg00010.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3119 www.debian.org
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.366317 www.slackware.com
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6272 puppet.com
- http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Jan-2015/msg00010.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3119 www.debian.org
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.366317 www.slackware.com
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6272 puppet.com