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CVE-2014-4502

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% 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 heap-based buffer overflows in the parse_notify function in sgminer before 4.2.2, cgminer before 4.3.5, and BFGMiner before 4.1.0 allow remote pool servers to have unspecified impact via a (1) large or (2) negative value in the Extranonc2_size parameter in a mining.subscribe response and a crafted mining.notify request.

Affected products

• Bfgminer: through 4.0.0; through 3.2.9; 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5 (+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/119
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68831
• https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e
• https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/ff7f30129f15f7a2213f8ced0cd65c9a331493d9
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/bac5831b355f916e0696b7bbcccfc51c057b729a
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/issues/258
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/119
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68831
• https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e
• https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/ff7f30129f15f7a2213f8ced0cd65c9a331493d9
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/bac5831b355f916e0696b7bbcccfc51c057b729a
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/issues/258

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