CVE-2013-2688

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-07-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in phrelay in BlackBerry QNX Neutrino RTOS through 6.5.0 SP1 in the QNX Software Development Platform allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted packets to TCP port 4868 that leverage improper handling of the /dev/photon device file.

Affected products

BlackBerry Qnx Neutrino Rtos: through 6.5.0; 6.4.1, 6.5.0
BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform (SDP): all versions

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/qnxph_1-adv.txt
http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-13-189-01
http://www.qnx.com/download/feature.html?programid=24850
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/qnxph_1-adv.txt
http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-13-189-01
http://www.qnx.com/download/feature.html?programid=24850

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