CVE-2014-9474

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the mpfr_strtofr function in GNU MPFR before 3.1.2-p11 allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to incorrect documentation for mpn_set_str.

Affected products

Mpfr Gnu Mpfr: through 3.1.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147737.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147745.html
http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.1.2/patch11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/12
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71542
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171701
https://gforge.inria.fr/scm/viewvc.php/mpfr?revision=9243&view=revision
https://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-bugs/2013-December/003267.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-06
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147737.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147745.html
http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.1.2/patch11

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