VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-5680

medium
Published 2014-04-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in hfaxd in HylaFAX+ 5.2.4 through 5.5.3, when using LDAP authentication, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child hang) or execute arbitrary code via a long USER command.

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-28683 dos linux verified
Dennis Jenkins · 2013-10-02

HylaFAX+ 5.2.4 > 5.5.3 - Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
lee_howardhylafax\+5.2.4
lee_howardhylafax\+5.2.5
lee_howardhylafax\+5.2.6
lee_howardhylafax\+5.2.7
lee_howardhylafax\+5.2.8
lee_howardhylafax\+5.2.9
lee_howardhylafax\+5.3.0
lee_howardhylafax\+5.4.1
lee_howardhylafax\+5.4.2
lee_howardhylafax\+5.5.0
lee_howardhylafax\+5.5.1
lee_howardhylafax\+5.5.2
lee_howardhylafax\+5.5.3

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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