CVE-2003-1163 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the Ganglia gmond daemon by sending a malformed UDP packet, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2003-1163?
CVE-2003-1163 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 May 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
hash.c in Ganglia gmond 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a UDP packet that contains a single-byte name string, which is used as an out-of-bounds array index.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-1163?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ganglia Gmond.
How do I fix CVE-2003-1163?
No fix has been published for CVE-2003-1163 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2003-1163 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-1163 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p3pg-fqc9-g66f.