CVE-2014-4501: Bfgminer

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Bfgminer Bfgminer: up to and including 3.2.9; version 3.2.0 only; version 3.2.1 only; version 3.2.2 only; version 3.2.3 only; version 3.2.4 only; …
• Cgminer Project Cgminer: up to and including 4.3.4; version 4.3.0 only; version 4.3.1 only; version 4.3.2 only; version 4.3.3 only
• Sgminer Project Sgminer: up to and including 4.2.1; version 4.0.0 only; version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.153 only; version 4.1.242 only; version 4.1.271 only; …

Published 2014-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.