CVE-2004-0961: Freeradius

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in FreeRADIUS before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of Access-Request packets with (1) Ascend-Send-Secret, (2) Ascend-Recv-Secret, or (3) Tunnel-Password attributes.

Affected products

• Freeradius Freeradius: version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.8 only; version 0.8.1 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_2.0 only

Published 2005-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.