National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5284
Original release date:11/29/2008
Last revised:12/17/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 27701
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080208 NULL byte writing in Emerald, RadiusNT/X and Air Marshal
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Radius40/changes.txt
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Emerald5/changes.txt
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.iea-software.com/docs/airmarshal1/changes.txt
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0484
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28846
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/emerdal-adv.txt
