Bug 37451 - libevent: Integer overflow (3.2)
Summary: libevent: Integer overflow (3.2)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 43554
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Product: UCS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Security updates
Version: UCS 4.0
Hardware: Other Linux
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: UCS 3.2-x-errata
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Reported: 2015-01-06 07:13 CET by Moritz Muehlenhoff
Modified: 2017-02-15 21:25 CET (History)
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Description Moritz Muehlenhoff univentionstaff 2015-01-06 07:13:39 CET 
CVE-2014-6272

The evbuffer API in libevent is affected by an integer overflow which potentially allows a heap overflow or denial of service (ATM no existing application is known which uses the API in an affected manner).
Comment 1 Arvid Requate univentionstaff 2015-05-07 17:39:10 CEST 
Fixed in upstream Debian package version 1.4.13-stable-1+deb6u1
Comment 2 Arvid Requate univentionstaff 2017-02-15 21:25:12 CET 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 43554 ***