Vulnerability in Libevent Project
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.
EPSS: 0.021 (79.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Libevent_project Libevent — versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@debian.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SLACKWARE)