CVE-2017-10979

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    CVE-2017-10979

    Published: 17 Jul 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An FR-GV-202 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows "Write overflow in rad_coalesce()" - this allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99901, http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759, http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 74ef9b64f7cd631b13d7a61bd1588a2bfc75ba39
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.0.0
    2.0.0-pre1
    2.0.0-pre2
    2.0.1
    2.0.2
    2.0.3
    2.0.4
    2.0.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High