Security Resilience

CVE-2013-1690

Memory Safety in Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 … 11

CISA KEVActive ExploitationEUVD ExploitedMemory Safety
Published
26 June 2013
Modified
22 April 2026
KEV Added
28 March 2022
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.69 99.3th percentile
Risk Priority 90 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2013-1690 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Suse Linux Enterprise Server. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

Mozilla Firefox versions before 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x versions before 17.0.7, Thunderbird versions before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x versions before 17.0.7 contain a memory safety flaw stemming from improper handling of onreadystatechange events in combination with page reloading. The issue, tracked as CWE-119, can trigger an attempt to execute data at an unmapped memory location.

Remote attackers may exploit the vulnerability by serving a crafted web page to a user who visits the site in an affected browser or mail client. Successful exploitation can result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the software.

OpenSUSE security advisories for this issue direct administrators to apply updated packages that correct the handling of these events in the listed Mozilla products.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Mozilla Firefox before 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.7, Thunderbird before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.7 do not properly handle onreadystatechange events in conjunction with page reloading, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application…

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crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers an attempt to execute data at an unmapped memory location.

CWE(s)
KEV Date Added
28 March 2022

Related Threats

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CVE-2016-1646Same product: Canonical Ubuntu Linuxboth on KEV
CVE-2015-2590Same product: Canonical Ubuntu Linuxboth on KEV
CVE-2012-1823Same product: Debian Debian Linuxboth on KEV
CVE-2010-3765Same product: Mozilla Firefoxboth on KEV
CVE-2019-8720Same product: Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktopboth on KEV
CVE-2014-1511Same product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux
CVE-2014-1510Same product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Affected Assets

mozilla
firefox
≤ 22.0 · 17.0 — 17.0.7
mozilla
thunderbird
≤ 17.0.7
mozilla
thunderbird esr
17.0 — 17.0.7
canonical
ubuntu linux
12.04, 12.10, 13.04
debian
debian linux
7.0
redhat
gluster storage server for on-premise
2.0
redhat
enterprise linux desktop
5.0, 6.0
redhat
enterprise linux eus
5.9, 6.4
redhat
enterprise linux server
5.0, 6.0
redhat
enterprise linux server aus
5.9, 6.4
+5 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-119

Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.

addresses: CWE-119

Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.

addresses: CWE-119

Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.

addresses: CWE-119

Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

blocks

A.8.25 mandates secure SDLC practices (secure coding guidelines, security requirements, testing including code scans and penetration tests, developer training) that reach buffer management and can stop many buffer overruns from reaching production, but leaves a bounded remainder (e.g. flaws in non-software components, incomplete enforcement of guidelines, or post-deployment changes)

blocks

Application security requirements can specify memory-safety rules, but do not prescribe implementation details.

blocks

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (e.g. least privilege, fail securely, distrust external input, hardening) plus design reviews that can catch and stop buffer-boundary errors before they reach code, but this is only one minority slice of CWE-119's broad surface (language-specific flaws, unsafe library use, compiler/runtime mitigations, and post-deployment instances remain outside its direct scope).

prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe buffer operations, directly eliminating CWE-119.

finds

Security testing in development catches out-of-bounds accesses before release, covering most instances of the weakness.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-119, a class-level weakness. Rules are authored against its narrower children: CWE-823.

References