CVE-2003-0450

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cistron RADIUS daemon (radiusd-cistron) 1.6.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large value in an NAS-Port attribute, which is interpreted as a negative number and causes a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Cistron Radius Daemon: through 1.6.6

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196063
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000664
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-321
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_030_radiusd_cistron.html
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-40.txt
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196063
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000664
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-321
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_030_radiusd_cistron.html
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-40.txt

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