| Name | CVE-2017-10979 |
| Description | 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. |
| 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 |
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 |
| bookworm | 3.2.1+dfsg-4+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 3.2.6+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid | 3.2.6+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html#FR-GV-202
https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/ae3ba0011e7d299e92c45300e0137a56a650e8f5
Mark as fixed in 3.0.12+dfsg-3 the first 3.x version in unstable
This is not fully technically correct, the issue affects only the 2.x
series but not 3.x.