CVE-2013-1910 Denial of service in yum
An attacker can cause a denial of service in the yum package manager by providing malicious metadata in a remote repository.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2013-1910?
CVE-2013-1910 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 31 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
yum does not properly handle bad metadata, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and possibly have other unspecified impact via a Trojan horse file in the metadata of a remote repository.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1910?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Baseurl Yum, Debian Debian Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2013-1910?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1910 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2013-1910 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1910 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c9v4-8m93-h7r2, UBUNTU-CVE-2013-1910.