CVE-2015-6525

Publication date 24 August 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Description

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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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libevent 15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed in 2.0.21-stable-1ubuntu1.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed in 2.0.16-stable-1ubuntu0.1

Notes

mdeslaur

CVE was split from CVE-2014-6272, but fixes were already applied in usn-2477-1

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