CVE-2004-0960 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published 20 Oct 2004 Updated 8 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can crash FreeRADIUS servers by sending malformed vendor-specific 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-2004-0960?

CVE-2004-0960 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 20 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 (core dump) via malformed USR vendor-specific attributes (VSA) that cause a memcpy operation with a -1 argument.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0960?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Freeradius Freeradius, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Fedora Core.

How do I fix CVE-2004-0960?

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-2004-0960 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0960 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Enterprise Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0960, GHSA-xw3g-88p6-48wm.