CVE-2014-6270 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-6270?

CVE-2014-6270 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 12 Sep 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Off-by-one error in the snmpHandleUdp function in snmp_core.cc in Squid 2.x and 3.x, when an SNMP port is configured, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted UDP SNMP request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-6270?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Oracle Solaris, Squid-Cache Squid.

How do I fix CVE-2014-6270?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2014-6270 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-6270 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2014-0397 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Oracle Solaris vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6270, GHSA-9v4x-8f3c-4hmw, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6270.