CVE-2003-0967 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FreeRADIUS versions 0.9.2 and earlier. A remote attacker can crash the server by sending a malformed RADIUS string attribute, specifically one that is too short but includes a tag, leading to an invalid memcpy operation. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a complete denial of service for affected FreeRADIUS servers. While not currently on the CISA KEV catalog or Hot List, exploit code for this heap corruption vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and the CVE has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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