PT-2014-7117 · Tpruvot · Cpuminer

Mick Ayzenberg · Published 2014-10-25 · Updated 2014-10-27 · CVE-2014-6251

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CPUMiner versions prior to 2.4.1

Description A stack-based buffer overflow issue exists, allowing remote attackers to have an unspecified impact. This is achieved by sending a mining.subscribe response with a large nonce2 length, followed by triggering the overflow with a mining.notify request.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.4.1, update to version 2.4.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-6251

Affected Products

Cpuminer

References · 5

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6251 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6251 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6251 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6251 · Vendor Advisory
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Oct/29 · Note