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CVE-2014-6272 (GCVE-0-2014-6272)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-24 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 12:10
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Jan-2015/… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3119 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6272 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=sl… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
Date Public
2015-01-05 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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