CVE-2014-6272

Summary

CVECVE-2014-6272
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-08-24 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2017-12-09 02:29:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.0 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.1 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.10 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.11 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.12 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.13 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.14 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.2 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.3 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.4 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.5 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.6 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.7 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.8 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.9 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.1 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.10 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.11 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.12 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.13 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.14 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.15 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.16 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.17 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.18 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.19 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.2 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.20 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.21 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.3 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.4 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.5 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.6 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.7 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.8 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.9 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.1.1 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.1.2 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.1.3 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.1.4 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.0 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.1 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.10 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.11 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.12 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.13 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.14 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.2 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.3 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.4 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.5 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.6 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.7 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.8 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 1.4.9 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.1 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.10 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.11 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.12 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.13 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.14 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.15 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.16 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.17 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.18 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.19 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.2 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.20 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.21 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.3 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.4 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.5 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.6 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.7 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.8 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.0.9 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.1.1 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.1.2 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.1.3 All All All
Application Libevent Project Libevent 2.1.4 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories SLACKWARE www.slackware.com
[Libevent-users] Advisory: integer overflow in evbuffers for Libevent <= 1.4.14b,2.0.21,2.1.4-alpha [CVE-2014-6272] MLIST archives.seul.org Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3119-1 libevent DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE-2014-6272 | Puppet CONFIRM puppet.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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