VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-1428

medium
Published 2013-04-26 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35441 remote multiple verified
Metasploit · 2014-12-02

Tincd - (Authenticated) Remote TCP Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/vpn/tincd_bof rank 200
Tincd Post-Authentication Remote TCP Stack Buffer Overflow
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.0.19-3
sid Fixed 1.0.19-3
forky Fixed 1.0.19-3
bullseye Fixed 1.0.19-3
bookworm Fixed 1.0.19-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
tinc-vpntinc{"endIncluding":"1.0.20"}
tinc-vpntinc1.0.17
tinc-vpntinc1.0.18
tinc-vpntinc1.0.19
tinc-vpntinc1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.