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title: "CVE-2014-4501\n    | Ubuntu"
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url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4501?format=md
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# CVE-2014-4501

Publication date 23 July 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| bfgminer | 19.04 disco | Not in release |
| 18.10 cosmic | Not affected |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not affected |
| 17.10 artful | Ignored end of life |
| 17.04 zesty | Ignored end of life |
| 16.10 yakkety | Ignored end of life |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 15.10 wily | Ignored end of life |
| 15.04 vivid | Ignored end of life |
| 14.10 utopic | Ignored end of life |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not in release |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |
| cgminer | 19.04 disco | Not affected |
| 18.10 cosmic | Not affected |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not affected |
| 17.10 artful | Ignored end of life |
| 17.04 zesty | Ignored end of life |
| 16.10 yakkety | Ignored end of life |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 15.10 wily | Ignored end of life |
| 15.04 vivid | Ignored end of life |
| 14.10 utopic | Ignored end of life |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not in release |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4501?format=md#patch-details)

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| bfgminer | * Upstream:   [c80ad85](https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79) |
| cgminer | * Upstream:   [e1c5050](https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e) |

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4501)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4501)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2014-4501)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4501)

### Other references

* <https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2>
* <https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce>
* <https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79>
* <https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e>
* <http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/118>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4501>