CVE-2004-1702 Information

Description

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).

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109208394910086&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/12251 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-08.xml http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=387&idxseccion=10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10900 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16937