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OESA-2023-1784 (CVE-2023-46316)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-11-03 11:06 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:06 – Source website

Summary

traceroute security update

Details

Traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol's time to live (TTL) field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to the host.

Security Fix(es):

In buc Traceroute 2.0.12 through 2.1.2 before 2.1.3, the wrapper scripts do not properly parse command lines.(CVE-2023-46316)

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46316	ADVISORY

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  "affected": [
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      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "aarch64": [
          "traceroute-2.1.2-2.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
          "traceroute-debugsource-2.1.2-2.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
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          "traceroute-debuginfo-2.1.2-2.oe2203sp1.aarch64.rpm",
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          "traceroute-debugsource-2.1.2-2.oe2203sp1.x86_64.rpm",
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          "traceroute-debuginfo-2.1.2-2.oe2203sp2.aarch64.rpm",
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          "traceroute-debuginfo-2.1.2-2.oe2203sp2.x86_64.rpm",
          "traceroute-debugsource-2.1.2-2.oe2203sp2.x86_64.rpm",
          "traceroute-2.1.2-2.oe2203sp2.x86_64.rpm"
        ]
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      "package": {
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        "purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/traceroute\u0026distro=openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP2"
      },
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  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
  "details": "Traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol\u0026apos;s time to live (TTL) field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to the host.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nIn buc Traceroute 2.0.12 through 2.1.2 before 2.1.3, the wrapper scripts do not properly parse command lines.(CVE-2023-46316)",
  "id": "OESA-2023-1784",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:06:13Z",
  "published": "2023-11-03T11:06:13Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2023-1784"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46316"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "traceroute security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-46316"
  ]
}

CVE-2023-46316 (GCVE-0-2023-46316)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 20:45

Summary

In buc Traceroute 2.0.12 through 2.1.2 before 2.1.3, the wrapper scripts do not properly parse command lines.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-04-22 17:55 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-234 - Failure to Handle Missing Parameter

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://sourceforge.net/projects/traceroute/files…
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2…
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176660/Trace…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
buc	traceroute	Affected: 2.0.12 cpe:2.3:a:buc:traceroute::::::linux::*

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