CVE-2003-0450 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2003-06-20

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 3.4% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:cistron:radius_daemon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2003-0444	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03402.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Cistron Radius Daemon

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-06-20T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:50:48.214Z

Reserved: 2003-06-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2003-0450

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-08-07T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2003-0450

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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