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Gentoo: GLSA-200704-14 Normal: FreeRADIUS DoS Risk Due To Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Explore the updated security notice regarding the FreeRADIUS memory leak vulnerability in Gentoo, which poses a risk of service interruption.
A memory leak has been discovered in FreeRADIUS, possibly allowing for a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200704-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: FreeRADIUS: Denial of Service Date: April 17, 2007 Bugs: #174292 ID: 200704-14

Synopsis ======= A memory leak has been discovered in FreeRADIUS, possibly allowing for a Denial of Service.
Background ========= FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server implementation.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dialup/freeradius < 1.1.6 >= 1.1.6
========== The Coverity Scan project has discovered a memory leak within the handling of certain malformed Diameter format values inside an EAP-TTLS tunnel.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could sen...

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