National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3697

Overview

The wait_for_child_to_die function in main/event.c in FreeRADIUS 2.1.x before 2.1.10, in certain circumstances involving long-term database outages, does not properly handle long queue times for requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by sending many requests.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/ff94dd35673bba1476594299d31ce8293b8bd223

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/ff94dd35673bba1476594299d31ce8293b8bd223

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639397

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639397

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.freeradius.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35

Hyperlink:https://bugs.freeradius.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101001 Re: CVE request: freeradius

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/8

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101001 CVE request: freeradius

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/3

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 41621

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/41621

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://freeradius.org/press/index.html#2.1.10

Hyperlink:http://freeradius.org/press/index.html#2.1.10