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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-119

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (5)

• 20140722 CVE-2014-4501 : Stack Overflow in Parsing client.reconnect Message of the Stratum Mining Protocol (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 11:20 UTC.