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CVE-2008-5284
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…
High10.0EPSS 4.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.4% · top 8.6% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/emerdal-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Radius40/changes.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 27701 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 28846 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0484 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20080208 NULL byte writing in Emerald, RadiusNT/X and Air Marshal (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.iea-software.com/docs/airmarshal1/changes.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Emerald5/changes.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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