CVE-2015-8762 (GCVE-0-2015-8762)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-03-27 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:29
Severity ?
Summary
The EAP-PWD module in FreeRADIUS 3.0 through 3.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash) via a zero-length EAP-PWD packet.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://freeradius.org/security.html#eap-pwd-2015Not Applicable
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://freeradius.org/security.html#eap-pwd-2015Not Applicable
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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