CVE-2013-2688 — Buffer overflow in phrelay in BlackBerry QNX Neutrino RTOS through 6.5.0 SP1 in the QNX Software Development Platform allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted packets to TCP port 4868 that leverage improper handling of the /dev/photon device file

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Buffer overflow in phrelay in BlackBerry QNX Neutrino RTOS through 6.5.0 SP1 in the QNX Software Development Platform allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted packets to TCP port 4868 that leverage improper handling of the /dev/photon device file

Published Jul 12, 2013

5.4

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 6.66%

Description

Buffer overflow in phrelay in BlackBerry QNX Neutrino RTOS through 6.5.0 SP1 in the QNX Software Development Platform allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted packets to TCP port 4868 that leverage improper handling of the /dev/photon device file.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

6.66% 0.06657

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.06657

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (19 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 3, 2026	6.66% (0.06657)	93.69th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	6.66% (0.06657)	93.00th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	3.68% (0.03680)	86.81th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	1.92% (0.01919)	72.37th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	3.68% (0.03680)	87.12th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	4.83% (0.04829)	92.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 7, 2024	2.33% (0.02332)	90.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 17, 2024	3.41% (0.03413)	91.60th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 24, 2024	0.81% (0.00810)	81.72th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 10, 2024	0.61% (0.00611)	78.53th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.50% (0.00498)	76.01th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.53% (0.00532)	76.58th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.47% (0.00473)	74.94th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 29, 2023	2.46% (0.02464)	88.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 11, 2023	2.88% (0.02875)	89.32th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	2.01% (0.02006)	87.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.29% (0.04291)	87.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.29% (0.04291)	86.39th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.29% (0.04291)	70.14th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (3)

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/qnxph_1-adv.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-13-189-01
x_refsource_MISCPatchUS Government Resource
http://www.qnx.com/download/feature.html?programid=24850
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/qnxph_1-adv.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-13-189-01		x_refsource_MISCPatchUS Government Resource
http://www.qnx.com/download/feature.html?programid=24850		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 12, 2013

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Mar 25, 2013

Link CVE-2013-2688

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2013-2688

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2013-2688