PT-2014-2580 · Alt Linux Team+2 · Alt Linux+1

Published 2014-06-02 · Updated 2025-07-08 · CVE-2013-2298

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions BOINC versions 7.x ALT Linux (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the XML parser, which can be triggered by a crafted XML file. This is associated with the scheduler component. The estimated number of potentially affected devices and details about real-world incidents are not provided.

Recommendations For BOINC versions 7.x, update to a version that fixes the XML parser issue. For ALT Linux, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1254

CVE-2013-2298

MGASA-2014-0460

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Boinc

References · 27

• 🔥 http://boinc.berkeley.edu/gitweb/?p=boinc-v2.git;a=commitdiff;h=2fea03824925cbcb976f4191f4d8321e41a4d95b · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2298 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0460 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2298 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1254 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2298 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/125125.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/125125.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2298 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2298 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/125128.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0460.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2298 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2298 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-2298 · Vendor Advisory