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gnu-radius -- SNMP-related denial-of-service

Affected packages
gnu-radius < 1.2.94

Details

VuXML ID e6f0edd8-0b40-11d9-8a8a-000c41e2cdad
Discovery 2004-09-15
Entry 2004-09-20
Modified 2005-05-03

An iDEFENSE security advisory reports:

Remote exploitation of an input validation error in version 1.2 of GNU radiusd could allow a denial of service.

The vulnerability specifically exists within the asn_decode_string() function defined in snmplib/asn1.c. When a very large unsigned number is supplied, it is possible that an integer overflow will occur in the bounds-checking code. The daemon will then attempt to reference unallocated memory, resulting in an access violation that causes the process to terminate.

References

CVE Name CVE-2004-0849
URL http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=141&type=vulnerabilities