CVE-2014-4501
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
10.0
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| sgminer_project | sgminer | {"endIncluding":"4.2.1"} | |
| sgminer_project | sgminer | 4.0.0 | |
| sgminer_project | sgminer | 4.1.0 | |
| sgminer_project | sgminer | 4.1.153 | |
| sgminer_project | sgminer | 4.1.242 | |
| sgminer_project | sgminer | 4.1.271 | |
| sgminer_project | sgminer | 4.2.0 | |
| cgminer_project | cgminer | {"endIncluding":"4.3.4"} | |
| cgminer_project | cgminer | 4.3.0 | |
| cgminer_project | cgminer | 4.3.1 | |
| cgminer_project | cgminer | 4.3.2 | |
| cgminer_project | cgminer | 4.3.3 | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | {"endIncluding":"3.2.9"} | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 3.2.0 | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 3.2.1 | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 3.2.2 | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 3.2.3 | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 3.2.4 | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 3.2.5 | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 3.2.6 | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 3.2.7 | |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 3.2.8 | |
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/118
- https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e
- https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79
- https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce
- https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/118
- https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e
- https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79
- https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce
- https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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