CVE-2017-10984

critical
Published 2017-07-17 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
9.8

Description

An FR-GV-301 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Write overflow in data2vp_wimax()" - this allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.0.15-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.0.15+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.0.15+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.0.15+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed3.0.15+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.0.15+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.0
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.1
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.2
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.3
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.4
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.5
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.6
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.7
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.8
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.9
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.10
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.11
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.12
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.13
freeradiusfreeradius3.0.14

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.