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CVE-2004-0961
Memory leak in FreeRADIUS before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 12% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- GLSA-200409-29 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10024 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 11222 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- freeradius-dos(17440) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- VU#541574 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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