CVE-2014-4503

The parsenotify function in util.c in sgminer before 4.2.2 and cgminer 3.3.0 through 4.0.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service application exit via a crafted 1 bbversion, 2 prevhash, 3 nbit, or 4 ntime parameter in a mining.notify action stratum message...

Stack overflow

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 extractsockaddr or 2 parsereconnect functions in util.c...

CVE-2014-4501

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 extractsockaddr or 2 parsereconnect functions in util.c...

CVE-2014-4502

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the parsenotify 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 Extranonc2size parameter in a mining.subscribe response and a...

CVE-2014-4503

The parsenotify function in util.c in sgminer before 4.2.2 and cgminer 3.3.0 through 4.0.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service application exit via a crafted 1 bbversion, 2 prevhash, 3 nbit, or 4 ntime parameter in a mining.notify action stratum message...

CVE-2014-4502

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2014-4501

Removed by vendor...

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