Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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) evbufferadd, (2) evbufferprepend, (3) evbufferexpand, (4) exbufferreservespace, or (5) evbufferread 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.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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) buffereventwrite 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.

First published (updated )

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