CVE-2014-4501
N/A
Published: July 23, 2014 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:10 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsBfgminerCgminerSgminer
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e
- https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79
- https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce
- https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2
References (5)
Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/118x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272ex_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbcex_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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