| Name | CVE-2017-10978 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1064-1, DSA-3930-1 |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 868765 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| freeradius (PTS) | wheezy | 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2 | vulnerable |
| wheezy (security) | 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2+deb7u2 | fixed | |
| jessie | 2.2.5+dfsg-0.2 | vulnerable | |
| jessie (security) | 2.2.5+dfsg-0.2+deb8u1 | fixed | |
| stretch | 3.0.12+dfsg-5 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (security) | 3.0.12+dfsg-5+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 3.0.15+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| freeradius | source | (unstable) | 3.0.15+dfsg-1 | medium | 868765 | |
| freeradius | source | jessie | 2.2.5+dfsg-0.2+deb8u1 | medium | DSA-3930-1 | |
| freeradius | source | stretch | 3.0.12+dfsg-5+deb9u1 | medium | DSA-3930-1 | |
| freeradius | source | wheezy | 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2+deb7u2 | medium | DLA-1064-1 |
http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html#FR-GV-201
2.x: https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/38ee90f2a5a28dc5887a30bdfdc98109c0418e68
3.x: https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/fc8662d7e827f630d515eaa0bddfa94754c8047f