Vulnerability in GNU Cfengine
CVE-2004-1702
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).
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.024 (83.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNU Cfengine — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
References
- www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php (Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/12251 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16937 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/10900 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-08.xml (Exploit, vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)