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CVE-2003-0453

CRITICAL

10.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.0790%

EPSS Percentile4.40th

PublishedAug 7, 2003

Last ModifiedApr 16, 2026

Vulnerability 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.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Ehud Gavron

Traceroute Nanog

= 6.1.1

References & Advisories

🔗 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105613905425563&w=2

🔗 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-348

🔗 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105613905425563&w=2

🔗 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-348

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