CVE-2014-4502

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

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the parse_notify function in sgminer before 4.2.2, cgminer before 4.3.5, and BFGMiner before 4.1.0 allow remote pool servers to have unspecified impact via a (1) large or (2) negative value in the Extranonc2_size parameter in a mining.subscribe response and a crafted mining.notify request.

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/bac5831b355f916e0696b7bbcccfc51c057b729a

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/ff7f30129f15f7a2213f8ced0cd65c9a331493d9

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

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

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
bfgminerbfgminer{"endIncluding":"4.0.0"}
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
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.