CVE-2004-0961

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-02-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in FreeRADIUS before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of Access-Request packets with (1) Ascend-Send-Secret, (2) Ascend-Recv-Secret, or (3) Tunnel-Password attributes.

Affected products

freeradius: 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.8, 0.8.1 (+5)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 3.0
RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0

References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-29.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/541574
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11222
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17440
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10024
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-29.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/541574
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11222
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17440
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10024

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