CVE-2003-0967

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    CVE-2003-0967

    Published: 15 Dec 2003Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106935911101493&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106944220426970, http://marc.info/?l=freeradius-users&m=106947389449613&w=2, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-386.html, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10917

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High