CVE-2017-10978 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Freeradius

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write10 documents9 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.3%
top 12.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
8
FreeradiusDebian LinuxRedhat Enterprise Linux Desktop+5 more
Timeline
PublishedJul 17
Latest updateMay 14

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDfreeradius/freeradius2.0 — 2.2.10+1
▶Debianfreeradius/freeradius< 3.0.15+dfsg-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Enterprise Linux 7.4, 7.6, 7.7, 7.5

Patches

Patch: freeradius.org ↗Patch: freeradius.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-488j-jf6p-2fhv: An FR-GV-201 issue in FreeRADIUS 2↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-10978: An FR-GV-201 issue in FreeRADIUS 2↗2017-07-17
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CVEList
CVE-2017-10978: An FR-GV-201 issue in FreeRADIUS 2↗2017-07-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Apple
CVE-2017-10978: macOS Server 5.4↗2017-09-25
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Ubuntu
FreeRADIUS vulnerabilities↗2017-07-27
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Red Hat
freeradius: Out-of-bounds read/write due to improper output buffer size check in make_secret()↗2017-07-17
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Debian
CVE-2017-10978: freeradius - An FR-GV-201 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 and 3.x before 3.0.15 allows ...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-10978 freeradius: Out-of-bounds read/write due to improper output buffer size check in make_secret() [fedora-all]↗2017-07-17
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-10978 freeradius: Out-of-bounds read/write due to improper output buffer size check in make_secret()↗2017-07-07
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