CVE-2008-5284
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 4.4% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5261)
- Published
- November 29, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5261 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / air marshal
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / emerald
- iea software / radius test client
- iea software / radius test client
- iea software / radiusnt
- iea software / radiusnt
and 271 more…
References
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/emerdal-adv.txt(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28846(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Emerald5/changes.txt
- http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Radius40/changes.txt
- http://www.iea-software.com/docs/airmarshal1/changes.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487810/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27701(Exploit)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0484
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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