CVE-2014-6251

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

25/10/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in CPUMiner before 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact by sending a mining.subscribe response with a large nonce2 length, then triggering the overflow with a mining.notify request.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

6.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:cpuminer_project:cpuminer::::::::		2.4.0 (including)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Oct/29
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Oct/29