CVE-2008-5284: Iea Software Air Marshal

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Iea Software Air Marshal: version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; version 1.0.6 only; version 1.0.7 only; version 1.0.8 only; …
• Iea Software Emerald: version 5.0.24 only; version 5.0.25 only; version 5.0.26 only; version 5.0.27 only; version 5.0.28 only; version 5.0.29 only; …
• Iea Software Radius Test Client: version 4.0.15 only; version 4.0.20 only
• Iea Software Radiusnt: up to and including 5.1.42; version 3.0.145 only; version 3.0.147 only; version 3.0.149 only; version 3.0.150 only; version 3.0.154 only; …
• Iea Software Radiusx: up to and including 5.1.42; version 3.0.145 only; version 3.0.147 only; version 3.0.149 only; version 3.0.150 only; version 3.0.154 only; …
• Iea Software Radlogin: version 4.0.15 only; version 4.0.20 only

Published 2008-11-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.