PT-2017-7471 · Freeradius · Freeradius

Jouni Malinen · Published 2017-03-27 · Updated 2017-03-30 · CVE-2015-8762

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeRADIUS versions 3.0 through 3.0.8

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a server crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This can be achieved by sending a zero-length EAP-PWD packet.

Recommendations For FreeRADIUS versions 3.0 through 3.0.8, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent remote attackers from causing a denial of service.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8762

Affected Products

Freeradius

References · 3

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/7 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8762 · Security Note
• http://freeradius.org/security.html#eap-pwd-2015 · Note