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CVE-2004-1702

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2004-08-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

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).

Affected Platforms

Gnu Cfengine

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References