CVE-2014-6273
Buffer overflow in the HTTP transport code in apt-get in APT 1.0.1 and earlier allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted
02 Description
Buffer overflow in the HTTP transport code in apt-get in APT 1.0.1 and earlier allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.43% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-09-30 14:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 12:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-09-09
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 33587439728e9fad9d65ee3094290ea64276781af297819212d7990aa76b708f
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2353-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2353-1
- www.securityfocus.com70075http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70075
- secunia.com61710http://secunia.com/advisories/61710
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comapt-cve20146273-bo(96151)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96151
- www.debian.orgDSA-3031http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3031
- secunia.com61605http://secunia.com/advisories/61605
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- apt Fixed in 1.0.3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- apt Fixed in 1.0.3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- apt Fixed in 1.0.3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- apt Fixed in 1.0.1ubuntu2.4.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.