CVE-2003-0967 Integer overflow in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash FreeRADIUS servers by sending malformed RADIUS attributes, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2003-0967?

CVE-2003-0967 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 2 Dec 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0967?

It affects 1 product.

Linux distribution packages (4)
freeradius Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::asAll versions0:0.9.3-1
freeradius-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::asAll versions0:0.9.3-1
freeradius Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::esAll versions0:0.9.3-1
freeradius-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::esAll versions0:0.9.3-1

Products include Freeradius Freeradius.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0967?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2003-0967 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2003-0967 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0967, GHSA-4j6g-2g2g-f47h, RHSA-2003:386.

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