CVE-2014-6272Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Libevent

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.1%
top 22.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedAug 24
Latest updateMay 17

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-20

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages3 packages

debiandebian/libevent< libevent 2.0.21-stable-2 (bookworm)
Debianlibevent_project/libevent< 2.0.21-stable-2+3
NVDlibevent_project/libevent40 versions+39

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 7.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-xfhg-qx7p-6gx5: Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 22022-05-17
GHSA
GHSA-246p-m32j-f38r: Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 12022-05-17
OSV
CVE-2015-6525: Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 22015-08-24
OSV
CVE-2014-6272: Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 12015-08-24

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Red Hat
libevent: multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer APIs2015-08-24
Ubuntu
libevent vulnerability2015-01-19
Red Hat
libevent: potential heap overflow in buffer/bufferevent APIs2015-01-05
Debian
CVE-2015-6525: libevent - Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 2.0.x before 2.0.22 a...2015
Debian
CVE-2014-6272: libevent - Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 1.4.x before 1.4.15, ...2014

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-6525 libevent: multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer APIs2015-08-25
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-6272 CVE-2015-6525 libevent: potential heap overflow in buffer/bufferevent APIs [fedora-all]2015-01-05
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-6272 libevent: potential heap overflow in buffer/bufferevent APIs2014-09-20