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RADIUS server detection

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Detect a radius server

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running a RADIUS server.

Several flaws are affecting various different various servers, however
Nessus could not acertain if they affect the remote host.

The flaws range between obtaining a root shell remotely to be
able to set up a dictionary attack against the remote server.

*** As Nessus solely relied on the existence of this service to
*** issue this alert, this might be a false positive.

Solution : Make sure you are running the latest version of your radius server and
filter incoming traffic to this port.

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 1147, 2989, 2991, 2994, 3529, 3530, 3532, 4230, 5103, 6261, 7892

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Tenable Network Security

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