FKIE_CVE-2003-0967

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2003-12-15 05:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:03
Severity
Summary
rad_decode in FreeRADIUS 0.9.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a short RADIUS string attribute with a tag, which causes memcpy to be called with a -1 length argument, as demonstrated using the Tunnel-Password attribute.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106935911101493&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106944220426970
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=freeradius-users&m=106947389449613&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-386.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10917
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106935911101493&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106944220426970
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=freeradius-users&m=106947389449613&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-386.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10917
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
freeradius freeradius *
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