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CVE-2017-10979

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

• freeradius: 2.0.0, 2.0.0-pre1, 2.0.0-pre2, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3 (+24)

References

• http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99901
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759
• http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99901
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759

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