CVE-2004-1702: GNU Cfengine

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The AuthenticationDialogue function in cfservd for Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1 does not properly check the return value of the ReceiveTransaction function, which leads to a failed malloc call and triggers to a null dereference, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected products

• GNU Cfengine: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2004-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.