CVE-2010-3697

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-3697
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-10-07 21:00:03 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Freeradius Freeradius 2.1.0 All All All
Application Freeradius Freeradius 2.1.1 All All All
Application Freeradius Freeradius 2.1.2 All All All
Application Freeradius Freeradius 2.1.3 All All All
Application Freeradius Freeradius 2.1.4 All All All
Application Freeradius Freeradius 2.1.6 All All All
Application Freeradius Freeradius 2.1.7 All All All
Application Freeradius Freeradius 2.1.8 All All All
Application Freeradius Freeradius 2.1.9 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE request: freeradius af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Do not delete "old" requests until they are free. · alandekok/freeradius-server@ff94dd3 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
FreeRADIUS Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
FreeRADIUS -- News af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 freeradius.org
oss-security - Re: CVE request: freeradius af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Login af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.freeradius.org
639397 – (CVE-2010-3697) CVE-2010-3697 freeradius: crash when processing requests queued for more than 30 seconds af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
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