Bug 37452

Summary:	libevent: Integer overflow (4.0)
Product:	UCS	Reporter:	Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm>
Component:	Security updates	Assignee:	Janek Walkenhorst <walkenhorst>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	UCS 4.0
Target Milestone:	UCS 4.0-0-errata
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Moritz Muehlenhoff

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

2015-01-16 15:43:48 CET

Tests: OK
Advisory: 2015-01-16-libevent.yaml

Comment 2 Moritz Muehlenhoff

2015-01-19 14:42:52 CET

Update and YAML ok.

Comment 3 Janek Walkenhorst

2015-01-21 14:16:48 CET

<http://errata.univention.de/ucs/4.0/37.html>