CVE-2017-10978
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 3.0.15-1 | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 3.0.15+dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 3.0.15+dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 3.0.15+dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 3.0.15+dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 3.0.15+dfsg-1 |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| debian | 9.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| freeradius | freeradius | {"startIncluding":"2.0","endExcluding":"2.2.10"} | 2.2.10 |
References
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201707-23
- http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99893
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2389
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10978
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.