CVE-2014-6272

critical

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.

References

https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6272

http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.366317

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3119

http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Jan-2015/msg00010.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-08-24

Updated: 2017-12-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical