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CVE-2008-5284

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The web server in IEA Software RadiusNT and RadiusX 5.1.38 and other versions before 5.1.44, Emerald 5.0.49 and other versions before 5.0.52, Air Marshal 2.0.4 and other versions before 2.0.8, and Radius test client (aka Radlogin) 4.0.20 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP Content-Length header with a negative value, which triggers a single byte overwrite of memory using a NULL terminator. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Iea Software Air Marshal: 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8 (+17)
• Iea Software Emerald: 5.0.24, 5.0.25, 5.0.26, 5.0.27, 5.0.28, 5.0.29 (+17)
• Iea Software Radius Test Client: 4.0.15, 4.0.20
• Iea Software Radiusnt: through 5.1.42; 3.0.145, 3.0.147, 3.0.149, 3.0.150, 3.0.154, 3.0.158 (+127)
• Iea Software Radiusx: through 5.1.42; 3.0.145, 3.0.147, 3.0.149, 3.0.150, 3.0.154, 3.0.158 (+130)
• Iea Software Radlogin: 4.0.15, 4.0.20

References

• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/emerdal-adv.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28846
• http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Emerald5/changes.txt
• http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Radius40/changes.txt
• http://www.iea-software.com/docs/airmarshal1/changes.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487810/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27701
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0484
• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/emerdal-adv.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28846
• http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Emerald5/changes.txt
• http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Radius40/changes.txt

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