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freeradius — security advisory
In freeradius, when an EAP-SIM supplicant sends an unknown SIM option, the server will try to look that option up in the internal dictionaries. This lookup will fail, but the SIM code will not check for that failure. Instead, it will dereference a NULL pointer, and cause the server to crash.
- Products
- freeradius
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.0.26-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-41860
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In freeradius, when an EAP-SIM supplicant sends an unknown SIM option, the server will try to look that option up in the internal dictionaries. This lookup will fail, but the SIM code will not check for that failure. Instead, it will dereference a NULL pointer, and cause the server to crash.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2022-41860
freeradius
Fixed versions: 3.0.26-r0
freeradius
Fixed versions: 3.0.26-r0
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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