CVE-2014-4501

critical
Published 2014-07-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sgminer_projectsgminer{"endIncluding":"4.2.1"}
sgminer_projectsgminer4.0.0
sgminer_projectsgminer4.1.0
sgminer_projectsgminer4.1.153
sgminer_projectsgminer4.1.242
sgminer_projectsgminer4.1.271
sgminer_projectsgminer4.2.0
cgminer_projectcgminer{"endIncluding":"4.3.4"}
cgminer_projectcgminer4.3.0
cgminer_projectcgminer4.3.1
cgminer_projectcgminer4.3.2
cgminer_projectcgminer4.3.3
bfgminerbfgminer{"endIncluding":"3.2.9"}
bfgminerbfgminer3.2.0
bfgminerbfgminer3.2.1
bfgminerbfgminer3.2.2
bfgminerbfgminer3.2.3
bfgminerbfgminer3.2.4
bfgminerbfgminer3.2.5
bfgminerbfgminer3.2.6
bfgminerbfgminer3.2.7
bfgminerbfgminer3.2.8

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.