CVE-2014-2015

high
Published 2014-11-02 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the normify function in the rlm_pap module (modules/rlm_pap/rlm_pap.c) in FreeRADIUS 2.x, possibly 2.2.3 and earlier, and 3.x, possibly 3.0.1 and earlier, might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long password hash, as demonstrated by an SSHA hash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.2.5+dfsg-0.1
sid Fixed 2.2.5+dfsg-0.1
forky Fixed 2.2.5+dfsg-0.1
bullseye Fixed 2.2.5+dfsg-0.1
bookworm Fixed 2.2.5+dfsg-0.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
freeradiusfreeradius2.0
freeradiusfreeradius2.0.1
freeradiusfreeradius2.0.2
freeradiusfreeradius2.0.3
freeradiusfreeradius2.0.4
freeradiusfreeradius2.0.5
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.0
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.1
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.2
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.3
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.4
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.6
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.7
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.8
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.9
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.10
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.11
freeradiusfreeradius2.1.12
freeradiusfreeradius2.2.0
freeradiusfreeradius2.2.1
freeradiusfreeradius2.2.2
freeradiusfreeradius2.2.3
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.0
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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