CVE-2017-10979

Publication date 17 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
freeradius 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu8.2

Notes

sbeattie

affects 2.x only

Patch details

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Package Patch details
freeradius

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3369-1
    • FreeRADIUS vulnerabilities
    • 27 July 2017

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