10.0
CRITICAL
CVE-2014-4501
SGMiner/Cgminer/BFGMiner Stack-Based Buffer Overflows
Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

July 23, 2014, 2:55 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 2:10 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

10.0

Exploitability Score :

10.0
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2014-4501 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Bfgminer bfgminer
1 Cgminer_project cgminer
1 Sgminer_project sgminer

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  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/118
    Added Reference https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e
    Added Reference https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79
    Added Reference https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce
    Added Reference https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jul. 23, 2014

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.68 }} 0.05%

score

0.79866

percentile

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