CVE-2014-6272
highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.021 · 81 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.4–7.5
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affected products (46)
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references (13)
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- http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Jan-2015/msg00010.htmlcnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60340cnnvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3119cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71971cnnvd
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libevent/libevent/release-1.4.15-stable/ChangeLogPatchcnnvd
- http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Jan-2015/msg00010.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3119enisa_euvd
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.366317enisa_euvd
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