CVE-2015-6525 in libevent

Resumen (Inglés)

Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 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_prepend, (3) evbuffer_expand, (4) exbuffer_reserve_space, or (5) evbuffer_read function, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow or an infinite loop. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2014-6272 per ADT3 due to different affected versions.

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Reservar

2015-08-20

Divulgación

2015-08-24

Estado

Confirmado

Voces

VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:

ID	Vulnerabilidad	CWE	Exp	Con	CVE
77430	libevent evbuffer API evbuffer_read Ejecución remota de código	189	No está definido	Arreglo oficial	CVE-2015-6525

Fuentes

• MITRE
• NVD
• CVE Details