FreeRADIUS up to 1.0.0 -1 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in FreeRADIUS up to 1.0.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation of the argument -1 results in denial of service. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-0960. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in FreeRADIUS up to 1.0.0 (Network Authentication Software). This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument -1 with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

FreeRADIUS before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump) via malformed USR vendor-specific attributes (VSA) that cause a memcpy operation with a -1 argument.

The weakness was published 02/09/2005 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-0960 since 10/18/2004. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18867 (FreeBSD : freeradius -- denial-of-service vulnerability (20dfd134-1d39-11d9-9be9-000c6e8f12ef)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 1.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17440), Tenable (18867), SecurityFocus (BID 11222†), OSVDB (11806†) and Secunia (SA12570†). Similar entries are available at VDB-23926 and VDB-22374. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 18867
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : freeradius -- denial-of-service vulnerability (20dfd134-1d39-11d9-9be9-000c6e8f12ef)
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OpenVAS ID: 52343
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: freeradius
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: FreeRADIUS 1.0.1

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09/20/2004 🔍
09/20/2004 +0 days 🔍
10/13/2004 +23 days 🔍
10/18/2004 +5 days 🔍
02/09/2005 +114 days 🔍
02/09/2005 +0 days 🔍
06/09/2005 +120 days 🔍
07/13/2005 +34 days 🔍
03/10/2015 +3527 days 🔍
12/16/2024 +3569 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-0960 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0960
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-23925

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X-Force: 17440
SecurityFocus: 11222 - FreeRADIUS Multiple Attribute Decoding Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 12570
OSVDB: 11806 - FreeRADIUS Access-Request Packet Memory Leak DoS
SecurityTracker: 1011364
Vulnerability Center: 8290 - DoS in FreeRADIUS <= 1.0 via Malformed USR, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 15:27
Updated: 12/16/2024 07:55
Changes: 03/10/2015 15:27 (73), 06/05/2019 17:04 (4), 07/01/2021 12:08 (3), 12/16/2024 07:55 (15)
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