CVE-2008-5284

high

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.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0484

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487810/100/200/threaded

http://www.iea-software.com/docs/airmarshal1/changes.txt

http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Radius40/changes.txt

http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Emerald5/changes.txt

http://secunia.com/advisories/28846

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-11-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.14296