Buffer overflow in Bfgminer
CVE-2014-4501
Multiple 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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.029 (86.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 86.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Bfgminer — versions 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2
- Cgminer Project — versions 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.3.2
- Sgminer Project — versions 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.1.153
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/118 (mailing-list)
- github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79 (Patch)
- github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce (Exploit, Patch)
- github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e (Exploit, Patch)
- github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2 (Patch)