CVE-2003-0967 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 4.6% (pctl 91)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 4.64% — more likely to be exploited than 91% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2003-12-15 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| freeradius | freeradius |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | FreeRadius 0.x/1.1.x - Tag Field Heap Corruption | 2003-11-20 |
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
- 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
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