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CVE-2014-4501

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Bfgminer: through 3.2.9; 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5 (+3)
• Cgminer Project Cgminer: through 4.3.4; 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3
• Sgminer Project Sgminer: through 4.2.1; 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.1.153, 4.1.242, 4.1.271, 4.2.0

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/118
• https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e
• https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/118
• https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e
• https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2

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