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CVE-2003-0373

CVE information

Published

20 years ago

Last Modified

7 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.4/10
Exploit Score
3.4/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:nessus:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
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