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CVE-2014-6272

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.

  • Published: Aug 24, 2015
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2014-6272
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
debian / debian_linux 7.0 7.0.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.5 2.0.5.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.20 2.0.20.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.6 1.4.6.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.7 2.0.7.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.19 2.0.19.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.8 2.0.8.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.18 2.0.18.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.12 1.4.12.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.12 2.0.12.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.1.4 2.1.4.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.14 1.4.14.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.3 1.4.3.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.6 2.0.6.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.0 1.4.0.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.2 1.4.2.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.3 2.0.3.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.10 2.0.10.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.9 2.0.9.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.1.3 2.1.3.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.1 1.4.1.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.9 1.4.9.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.7 1.4.7.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.4 1.4.4.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.5 1.4.5.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.1.2 2.1.2.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.11 1.4.11.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.4 2.0.4.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.15 2.0.15.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.13 1.4.13.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.17 2.0.17.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.1.1 2.1.1.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.8 1.4.8.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.14 2.0.14.x
libevent_project / libevent 1.4.10 1.4.10.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.1 2.0.1.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.13 2.0.13.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.11 2.0.11.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.2 2.0.2.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.16 2.0.16.x
libevent_project / libevent 2.0.21 2.0.21.x