Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting freeradius/freeradius-server package, versions [,0.9.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.89% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERADIUSFREERADIUSSERVER-2365117
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Dec 2003
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Dec 2003

CVE-2003-0967  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freeradius/freeradius-server to version 0.9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1