CVE-2004-0961 describes a memory leak vulnerability in FreeRADIUS versions prior to 1.0.1, affecting various FreeRADIUS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora Core products. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending specific Access-Request packets containing Ascend-Send-Secret, Ascend-Recv-Secret, or Tunnel-Password attributes, leading to memory exhaustion. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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