DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6272
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272
Upstream
Published
2015-08-24T14:59:01Z
Modified
2025-09-19T06:21:15Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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) evbufferadd, (2) evbufferexpand, 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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libevent

Package

Name
libevent
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.0.21-stable-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / libevent

Package

Name
libevent
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.0.21-stable-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / libevent

Package

Name
libevent
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.0.21-stable-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / libevent

Package

Name
libevent
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.0.21-stable-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}