Vulnerability in Freeradius

CVE-2010-3697

The 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.

EPSS: 0.022 (80.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Freeradius — versions 2.1.9, 2.1.7, 2.1.8
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References