PT-2003-1570 · Tenable · Nessus

Sir Mordred · Published 2003-06-06 · Updated 2016-10-18 · CVE-2003-0373

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Nessus versions prior to 2.0.6

Description: The issue is related to multiple buffer overflows in the libnasl component. These overflows can be triggered by local users with plugin upload privileges, potentially leading to a denial of service (core dump) and possibly the execution of arbitrary code. This can occur through various means, including a long proto argument to the scanner add port function, a long user argument to the ftp log in function, or a long pass argument to the ftp log in function.

Recommendations: For Nessus versions prior to 2.0.6, update to version 2.0.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-0373

Affected Products

Nessus

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0373 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105364059803427&w=2 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/7664 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105369506714849&w=2 · Note