CVE-2013-1634

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-665

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in some motherboard implementations of Intel e1000e/82574L network controller devices through 2013-02-06 where the device can be brought into a non-processing state when parsing 32 hex, 33 hex, or 34 hex byte values at the 0x47f offset. NOTE: A followup statement from Intel suggests that the root cause of this issue was an incorrectly configured EEPROM image.

Affected products

Intel 82574L Controller Firmware: through 2013-02-06

References

http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20131205055429/https://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2013/02/07/intel-82574l-gigabit-ethernet-controller-statement
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/12/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/12/4
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028089
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/85069
http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20131205055429/https://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2013/02/07/intel-82574l-gigabit-ethernet-controller-statement
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/12/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/12/4
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028089
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/85069

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