VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2003-0453

CVSS score10 HIGH
EPSS probability2.80%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2003-08-07
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

traceroute-nanog 6.1.1 allows local users to overwrite unauthorized memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain "nprobes" and "max_ttl" arguments that cause an integer overflow that is used when allocating memory, which leads to a buffer overflow.

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