Bug 37452 - libevent: Integer overflow (4.0)
Summary: libevent: Integer overflow (4.0)
Status: CLOSED FIXED
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Product: UCS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Security updates
Version: UCS 4.0
Hardware: Other Linux
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: UCS 4.0-0-errata
Assignee: Janek Walkenhorst
QA Contact: Moritz Muehlenhoff
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Reported: 2015-01-06 07:14 CET by Moritz Muehlenhoff
Modified: 2015-01-21 14:16 CET (History)
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Description Moritz Muehlenhoff univentionstaff 2015-01-06 07:14:02 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 Janek Walkenhorst univentionstaff 2015-01-16 15:43:48 CET 
Tests: OK
Advisory: 2015-01-16-libevent.yaml
Comment 2 Moritz Muehlenhoff univentionstaff 2015-01-19 14:42:52 CET 
Update and YAML ok.
Comment 3 Janek Walkenhorst univentionstaff 2015-01-21 14:16:48 CET 
<http://errata.univention.de/ucs/4.0/37.html>