CVE-2013-2688: blackberry qnx_neutrino_rtos

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-2688 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability in blackberry qnx_neutrino_rtos. EPSS estimates a 6.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 12-07-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.