CVE-2017-10987

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Published 2017-07-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

An FR-GV-304 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "DHCP - Buffer over-read in fr_dhcp_decode_suboptions()" 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.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`3.0.15-1`
sles		affected
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`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.0`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.1`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.2`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.3`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.4`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.5`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.6`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.7`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.8`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.9`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.10`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.11`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.12`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.13`
freeradius	freeradius	`3.0.14`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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