CVE-2013-5140 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-5140?

CVE-2013-5140 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 19 Sep 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The kernel in Apple iOS before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and device restart) via an invalid packet fragment.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-5140?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Iphone Os.

How do I fix CVE-2013-5140?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-5140 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-2013-5140 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5140 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Iphone Os

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• CVE-2021-30762 Apple iOS WebKit Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4657 Apple iOS Webkit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-7286 Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xmvf-7wg4-234h.