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CVE-2003-0453

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

• Ehud Gavron Traceroute-Nanog: 6.1.1

References

• 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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