CVE-2004-0938 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-0938?

CVE-2004-0938 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Oct 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

FreeRADIUS before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) by sending an Ascend-Send-Secret attribute without the required leading packet.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0938?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Freeradius Freeradius.

How do I fix CVE-2004-0938?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2004-0938 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0938 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2017-10979 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-10984 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-9148 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-8763 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.1
• CVE-2015-8764 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0938, GHSA-3vc7-3jff-2j8g.