CVE-2015-6525
At a glance Severity Not available EPSS EPSS 4.81 % · percentile 92 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2015-08-24 Updated 2024-08-06 Assigner mitre NVD status Modified Description Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 2.0.x before 2.0.22 and 2.1.x before 2.1.5-beta allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified impact via "insanely large inputs" to the (1) evbuffer_add, (2) evbuffer_prepend, (3) evbuffer_expand, (4) exbuffer_reserve_space, or (5) evbuffer_read function, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow or an infinite loop. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2014-6272 per ADT3 due to different affected versions.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 2.0 HIGH 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
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Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.0.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:libevent_project:libevent:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Affected products Product Versions affected n/a
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