Gentoo: cistronradius Buffer overflow vulnerability
Cistron RADIUS daemon (radiusd-cistron) 1.6.6 and earlier allows remoteattackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrarycode via a large value in an NAS-Port at...
Summary
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quote from CVE: "Cistron RADIUS daemon (radiusd-cistron) 1.6.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large value in an NAS-Port attribute, which is interpreted as a negative number and causes a buffer overflow."
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-dialup/cistronradius upgrade to cistronradius-1.6.6-r1 as follows
emerge sync emerge cistronradius emerge clean
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PACKAGE : cistonradius
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-07-11 13:57 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =cistronradius-1.6.6-r1
CVE : CAN-2003-0450
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