Bug 1145862 (CVE-2014-6273) - CVE-2014-6273 apt: possible stack-based buffer overflow when handling HTTP URLs
Summary: CVE-2014-6273 apt: possible stack-based buffer overflow when handling HTTP URLs
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-6273
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1145863
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-24 03:17 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:35:00 UTC
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-09-24 03:17:43 UTC 
A possible stack-based buffer overflow flaw when handling HTTP URLs was found in apt. A man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause apt to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

Possible fix:

https://gist.github.com/AGWA/4069e45856ed261ac0af

References:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2353-1/
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-09-24 03:18:08 UTC 
Created apt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1145863]
Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:35:00 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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