CVE-2015-6525

Public on 2015-08-24
Modified on 2019-11-14
Description
Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the libevent's evbuffer API. An attacker able to make an application pass an excessively long input to libevent using the API could use these flaws to make the application enter an infinite loop, crash, and, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core libevent 2019-11-11 ALAS2-2019-1359 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P