CVE-2010-3697 Information

Description

The wait_for_child_to_die function in main/event.c in FreeRADIUS 2.1.x before 2.1.10 in certain circumstances involving long-term database outages does not properly handle long queue times for requests which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by sending many requests.

Reference

http://freeradius.org/press/index.html2.1.10 http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/ff94dd35673bba1476594299d31ce8293b8bd223 http://secunia.com/advisories/41621 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/8 https://bugs.freeradius.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639397