CVE-2008-5284

N/A Unknown
Published: November 29, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026
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Description

The web server in IEA Software RadiusNT and RadiusX 5.1.38 and other versions before 5.1.44, Emerald 5.0.49 and other versions before 5.0.52, Air Marshal 2.0.4 and other versions before 2.0.8, and Radius test client (aka Radlogin) 4.0.20 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP Content-Length header with a negative value, which triggers a single byte overwrite of memory using a NULL terminator. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28846
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27701
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/emerdal-adv.txt
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/28846
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Emerald5/changes.txt
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Radius40/changes.txt
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.iea-software.com/docs/airmarshal1/changes.txt
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487810/100/200/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27701
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0484
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

16 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
11.4%
94th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

iea_software