Description
The remote management interface of cgminer 4.10.0 and bfgminer 5.5.0 allows an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to a stack-based buffer overflow in the addpool, failover-only, poolquota, and save command handlers.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | cgminer | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | cgminer | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | cgminer +1 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | cgminer +1 | No fix yet | — |