cvelist/2014/6xxx/CVE-2014-6272.json

{
    "CVE_data_meta": {
        "ASSIGNER": "security@debian.org",
        "ID": "CVE-2014-6272",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "affects": {
        "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
                {
                    "product": {
                        "product_data": [
                            {
                                "product_name": "n/a",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_value": "n/a"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "vendor_name": "n/a"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "data_format": "MITRE",
    "data_type": "CVE",
    "data_version": "4.0",
    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "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."
            }
        ]
    },
    "problemtype": {
        "problemtype_data": [
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "n/a"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "name": "[Libevent-users] 20150105 Advisory: integer overflow in evbuffers for Libevent <= 1.4.14b,2.0.21,2.1.4-alpha [CVE-2014-6272]",
                "refsource": "MLIST",
                "url": "http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Jan-2015/msg00010.html"
            },
            {
                "name": "DSA-3119",
                "refsource": "DEBIAN",
                "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3119"
            },
            {
                "name": "https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6272",
                "refsource": "CONFIRM",
                "url": "https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6272"
            },
            {
                "name": "SSA:2016-085-01",
                "refsource": "SLACKWARE",
                "url": "http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.366317"
            }
        ]
    }
}