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CVSSv2

CVE-2003-0453

Published: 07/08/2003 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 890
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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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ehud gavron traceroute-nanog 6.1.1

Vendor Advisories

traceroute-nanog, an enhanced version of the common traceroute program, contains an integer overflow bug which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code traceroute-nanog is setuid root, but drops root privileges immediately after obtaining raw ICMP and raw IP sockets Thus, exploitation of this bug provides only access to these sockets, and not ...