CVE-2004-1702

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-08-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The AuthenticationDialogue function in cfservd for Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1 does not properly check the return value of the ReceiveTransaction function, which leads to a failed malloc call and triggers to a null dereference, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected products

GNU Cfengine: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+14)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109208394910086&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12251
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-08.xml
http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=387&idxseccion=10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10900
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16937
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109208394910086&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12251
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-08.xml
http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=387&idxseccion=10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10900
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16937

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