CVE-2013-0249 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2013-0249?

CVE-2013-0249 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 Mar 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Curl_sasl_create_digest_md5_message function in lib/curl_sasl.c in curl and libcurl 7.26.0 through 7.28.1, when negotiating SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in the realm parameter in a (1) POP3, (2) SMTP or (3) IMAP message.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-0249?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Haxx Curl, Haxx Libcurl.

How do I fix CVE-2013-0249?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2013-0249 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-0249 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CURL-CVE-2013-0249, DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0249, GHSA-mj69-wpmp-9c9f.