CVE-2017-10979 (GCVE-0-2017-10979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-17 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:57
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2320 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99901 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2017-07-17 00:00
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