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CVE-2014-6272

Published: 6 January 2015

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.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
libevent
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (1.4.15,2.0.22)
lucid
Released (1.4.13-stable-1ubuntu0.1)
precise
Released (2.0.16-stable-1ubuntu0.1)
trusty
Released (2.0.21-stable-1ubuntu1.14.04.1)
utopic
Released (2.0.21-stable-1ubuntu1.14.10.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/7b21c4eabf1f3946d3f63cce1319c490caab8ecf (1.4)
upstream: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/20d6d4458bee5d88bda1511c225c25b2d3198d6c (2.0)
upstream: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/841ecbd96105c84ac2e7c9594aeadbcc6fb38bc4 (2.1)
vendor: https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3119