A vulnerability was found in sgminer up to 4.2.1 and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file util.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was published 07/23/2014 (Website). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-4501 since 06/20/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/26/2022).

Upgrading to version 4.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

Similar entry is available at VDB-70431.

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• sgminer

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• 4.0.0
• 4.1.0
• 4.1.153
• 4.1.242
• 4.1.271
• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1

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• open-source

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