| 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, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1064-1, DSA-3930-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 868765 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| freeradius (PTS) | bullseye | 3.0.21+dfsg-2.2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 3.0.21+dfsg-2.2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.2.1+dfsg-4+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.2.7+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
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