libevent — security advisory

{
  "id": "ecd6c43c4b7a824ff32df1ef147f304d0e46fac9093bc39b362be9ad88a0ad4f",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272",
    "summary": "Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 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_expand, or (3) bufferevent_write function, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow or an infinite loop. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected versions. See CVE-2015-6525 for the functions that are only affected in 2.0 and later.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "libevent",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.0.21-stable-2",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "libevent",
          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.0.21-stable-2",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "libevent",
          "evidence": "/affected/2/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.0.21-stable-2",
            "evidence": "/affected/2/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272",
      "aliases": [
        "DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "2.0.21-stable-2"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "libevent",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
          },
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "2.0.21-stable-2"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "libevent",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "2.0.21-stable-2"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "libevent",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source&distro=forky",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:14"
          },
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6272.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-23T15:47:39.139086507Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2014-6272"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6272"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2014-6272",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 414586,
  "published_at": "2015-08-24T14:59:01.353+00:00"
}