Null Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1

CVE-2004-1702 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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).

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