CVE-2003-0450

HIGH 7.5CVE-2003-0450 · Published 07/08/2003 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2003-0450 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting radius daemon (cistron).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.2%, higher than 91.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
radius daemon cistron	`≤ 1.6.6`	No fix yet

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.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi · Exploit
distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes
debian.org/security/2003/dsa-321 · Patch
novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_030_radiusd_cistron.html
turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-40.txt · Patch

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