CVE-2013-1428: Tinc-VPN Tinc

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 60.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the receive_tcppacket function in net_packet.c in tinc before 1.0.21 and 1.1 before 1.1pre7 allows remote authenticated peers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large TCP packet.

Affected products

• Tinc-VPN Tinc: up to and including 1.0.20; up to and including 1.1; version 1.0.17 only; version 1.0.18 only; version 1.0.19 only; version 1.1 only

Published 2013-04-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.