CVE-2017-10978

HIGH

FreeRADIUS 2.x < 2.2.10 and 3.x < 3.0.15 - Denial of Service via make_secret() Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An FR-GV-201 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 and 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Read / write overflow in make_secret()" and a denial of service.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99893
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2389
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0300
EPSS Percentile 85.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (18)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
freeradius/freeradius 2.0 - 2.2.10
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.4
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.6
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.7
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_eus 7.4
... and 8 more
Published Jul 17, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026