CVE-2010-3697

First published: Sun May 30 2010(Updated: )

It was reported [1],[2] that an error when processing requests queued for more than 30 seconds in src/main/event.c could be exploited to cause the process to crash by sending a large number of requests for an extended period of time. This flaw seems to only affect 2.1.x and was fixed [3] in 2.1.10. [1] <a href="https://bugs.freeradius.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35">https://bugs.freeradius.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35</a> [2] <a href="http://secunia.com/advisories/41621">http://secunia.com/advisories/41621</a> [3] <a href="http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/ff94dd35673bba1476594299d31ce8293b8bd223">http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/ff94dd35673bba1476594299d31ce8293b8bd223</a> The offending file (event.c), nor the affected function (wait_for_child_to_die()) are not present in the version of freeradius as provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (1.1.3).

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

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