Cistron RADIUS Remote Signed NAS-Port Number Expansion Memory Corruption Vulnerability

BID:7892

Info

Cistron RADIUS Remote Signed NAS-Port Number Expansion Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7892
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2003-0450
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 13 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 10:06PM
Credit: The discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to "David Luyer" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cistron Radius 1.6.6
- Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.1 alpha
- Redhat Linux 7.0 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.0 alpha
+ SuSE Linux 8.0
Miquel van Smoorenburg Cistron Radius 1.6.5
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.1.1
- Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.1 alpha
- Redhat Linux 7.0 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.0 alpha
Miquel van Smoorenburg Cistron Radius 1.6.4
+ SuSE Linux 7.3 sparc
+ SuSE Linux 7.3 ppc
+ SuSE Linux 7.3 i386
+ SuSE Linux 7.2 i386
+ SuSE Linux 7.1 x86
+ SuSE Linux 7.1 sparc
+ SuSE Linux 7.1 ppc
+ SuSE Linux 7.1 alpha
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Cistron RADIUS Remote Signed NAS-Port Number Expansion Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote vulnerability has been discovered in Cistron RADIUS. The problem occurs due to a design error when processing user-supplied data. As a result, an attacker may transmit a signed value which when interperted could cause memory corruption.

The vulnerability occurs due to the incorrect usage of the '%d' format specifier when calling the sprintf() function.

A remote attacker could potentially exploit this issue to seize control of the RADIUS server's execution flow. If successful, this could be leveraged to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the process.

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Cistron RADIUS Remote Signed NAS-Port Number Expansion Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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