CVE-2010-3697: Freeradius

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The wait_for_child_to_die function in main/event.c in FreeRADIUS 2.1.x before 2.1.10, in certain circumstances involving long-term database outages, does not properly handle long queue times for requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by sending many requests.

Affected products

• Freeradius Freeradius: version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.1.3 only; version 2.1.4 only; version 2.1.6 only; …

Published 2010-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.