CVE-2003-0373

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in libnasl in Nessus before 2.0.6 allow local users with plugin upload privileges to cause a denial of service (core dump) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a long proto argument to the scanner_add_port function, (2) a long user argument to the ftp_log_in function, (3) a long pass argument to the ftp_log_in function.

Affected products

Nessus: through 2.0.5

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105364059803427&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105369506714849&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7664
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105364059803427&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105369506714849&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7664

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