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.
Published: 2017-07-17
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 30.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1064-1 freeradius security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3930-1 freeradius security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3369-1 FreeRADIUS vulnerabilities
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.24271}

epss

{'score': 0.15435}


Subscriptions

Freeradius Freeradius
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:57:56.375Z

Reserved: 2017-07-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-10979

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-07-17T17:29:00.210

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-10979

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-07-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-10979 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses