Numeric Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libevent  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-LIBEVENT-625309
  • published24 Aug 2015
  • disclosed24 Aug 2015

Introduced: 24 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-6525  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libevent package and not the libevent package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.