CVE-2004-1702

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The AuthenticationDialogue function in cfservd for Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1 does not properly check the return value of the ReceiveTransaction function, which leads to a failed malloc call and triggers to a null dereference, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

The AuthenticationDialogue function in cfservd for Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1 does not properly check the return value of the ReceiveTransaction function, which leads to a failed malloc call and triggers to a null dereference, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

GNU Cfengine

First reported 20 years ago

2004-08-09 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

GNU Cfengine 2.0.0

2.0.0

GNU Cfengine 2.0.1

2.0.1

GNU Cfengine 2.0.2

2.0.2

GNU Cfengine 2.0.3

2.0.3

GNU Cfengine 2.0.4

2.0.4

GNU Cfengine 2.0.5

2.0.5

GNU Cfengine 2.0.6

2.0.6

GNU Cfengine 2.0.7

2.0.7

GNU Cfengine 2.0.8

2.0.8

References

20040809 CORE-2004-0714: Cfengine RSA Authentication Heap Corruption

12251

Patch, Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200408-08

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=387&idxseccion=10

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

10900

Patch, Vendor Advisory

cfengine-cfservd-dos(16937)

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