CVE-2014-4501

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-4501
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-07-23 14:55:06 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionMultiple stack-based buffer overflows in sgminer before 4.2.2, cgminer before 4.3.5, and BFGMiner before 3.3.0 allow remote pool servers to have unspecified impact via a long URL in a client.reconnect stratum message to the (1) extract_sockaddr or (2) parse_reconnect functions in util.c.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 10 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer 3.2.0 All All All
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer 3.2.1 All All All
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer 3.2.2 All All All
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer 3.2.3 All All All
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer 3.2.4 All All All
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer 3.2.5 All All All
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer 3.2.6 All All All
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer 3.2.7 All All All
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer 3.2.8 All All All
Application Bfgminer Bfgminer All All All All
Application Cgminer Project Cgminer 4.3.0 All All All
Application Cgminer Project Cgminer 4.3.1 All All All
Application Cgminer Project Cgminer 4.3.2 All All All
Application Cgminer Project Cgminer 4.3.3 All All All
Application Cgminer Project Cgminer All All All All
Application Sgminer Project Sgminer 4.0.0 All All All
Application Sgminer Project Sgminer 4.1.0 All All All
Application Sgminer Project Sgminer 4.1.153 All All All
Application Sgminer Project Sgminer 4.1.242 All All All
Application Sgminer Project Sgminer 4.1.271 All All All
Application Sgminer Project Sgminer 4.2.0 All All All
Application Sgminer Project Sgminer All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Do some random sanity checking for stratum message parsing · ckolivas/cgminer@e1c5050 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Patch
Stratum: extract_sockaddr: Truncate overlong addresses rather than st… · sgminer-dev/sgminer@b65574b · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
Full Disclosure: CVE-2014-4501 : Stack Overflow in Parsing client.reconnect Message of the Stratum Mining Protocol af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
Stratum: extract_sockaddr: Truncate overlong addresses rather than st… · luke-jr/bfgminer@c80ad85 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
stratum: parse_reconnect(): treat pool-sent URL as untrusted. · sgminer-dev/sgminer@78cc408 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Patch
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