CVE-2017-13679 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-13679?

CVE-2017-13679 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 Oct 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A denial of service (DoS) attack in Symantec Encryption Desktop before SED 10.4.1 MP2HF1 allows remote attackers to make a particular machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a specific host within a network.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-13679?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Symantec Encryption Desktop.

How do I fix CVE-2017-13679?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-13679 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-2017-13679 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-13679 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2016-6590 Privilege escalation in Encryption Desktop High 7.8
• CVE-2012-4351 Integer overflow in n/a Medium 6.9
• CVE-2013-1610 Privilege escalation in n/a Medium 6.8
• CVE-2017-6330 Denial of service in Symantec Encryption Desktop Medium 6.5
• CVE-2017-13682 Information disclosure in Symantec Encryption Desktop Medium 5.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xh4q-c32g-m92w.