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CVE-2014-4501

HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 2.9%EU EUVD

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in sgminer before 4.2.2, cgminer before 4.3.5, and BFGMiner before 3.3.0 allow remote pool servers to have unspecified impact via a long URL in a client.reconnect stratum message to the (1) extract_sockaddr or (2) parse_reconnect functions in util.c.

Key facts

CVSS score
10.0 (v2.0)
Severity
HIGH
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-119
EPSS score
2.9% (87th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2014-4428)
Published
July 23, 2014
NVD last modified
June 17, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-4428 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • bfgminer / bfgminer
  • cgminer project / cgminer
  • cgminer project / cgminer
  • cgminer project / cgminer
  • cgminer project / cgminer
  • cgminer project / cgminer
  • sgminer project / sgminer
  • sgminer project / sgminer
  • sgminer project / sgminer
  • sgminer project / sgminer
  • sgminer project / sgminer
  • sgminer project / sgminer
  • sgminer project / sgminer

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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