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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2003-0795

The vty layer in Quagga before 0.96.4, and Zebra 0.93b and earlier, does not verify that sub-negotiation is taking place when processing the SE marker, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed telnet command to…

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 8.23%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (8.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The vty layer in Quagga before 0.96.4, and Zebra 0.93b and earlier, does not verify that sub-negotiation is taking place when processing the SE marker, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed telnet command to the telnet CLI port, which may trigger a null dereference.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
8.23% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
gnu/zebra · quagga/quagga · sgi/propack
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.