CVE-2013-1428

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 60.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-04-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the receive_tcppacket function in net_packet.c in tinc before 1.0.21 and 1.1 before 1.1pre7 allows remote authenticated peers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large TCP packet.

Affected products

Tinc-Vpn Tinc: through 1.0.20; through 1.1; 1.0.17, 1.0.18, 1.0.19, 1.1-pre3, 1.1-pre4, 1.1-pre5

References

http://freecode.com/projects/tinc/releases/354122
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105531.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105559.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106167.html
http://osvdb.org/92653
http://secunia.com/advisories/53087
http://secunia.com/advisories/53108
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2663
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59369
http://www.tinc-vpn.org/news/
http://www.tinc-vpn.org/pipermail/tinc/2013-April/003240.html
https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc/commit/17a33dfd95b1a29e90db76414eb9622df9632320

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