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CVE-2017-10979

freeradius: Out-of-bounds write in rad_coalesce()

Published Modified CWE 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Amazon (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).

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 packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1freeradius, freeradius-debuginfo, freeradius-krb5 and 7 more2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
debian 11freeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
debian 12freeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
debian 13freeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
debian 14freeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
debian 7freeradius2.1.12+dfsg-1.2+deb7u2
debian 8freeradius2.2.5+dfsg-0.2+deb8u1
echofreeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
Oracle Linux 6freeradius, freeradius-krb5, freeradius-ldap and 6 more2.2.6-7.el6_9
ubuntu 14.04freeradius2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu8.2
ubuntu 16.04freeradius2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMfreeradius2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1
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SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1freeradius2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
amazon linux 1freeradius-debuginfo2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
amazon linux 1freeradius-krb52.2.6-7.16.amzn1
amazon linux 1freeradius-ldap2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
amazon linux 1freeradius-mysql2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
amazon linux 1freeradius-perl2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
amazon linux 1freeradius-postgresql2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
amazon linux 1freeradius-python2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
amazon linux 1freeradius-unixODBC2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
amazon linux 1freeradius-utils2.2.6-7.16.amzn1
debian 11freeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
debian 12freeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
debian 13freeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
debian 14freeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
debian 7freeradius2.1.12+dfsg-1.2+deb7u2
debian 8freeradius2.2.5+dfsg-0.2+deb8u1
echofreeradius3.0.12+dfsg-3
Oracle Linux 6freeradius2.2.6-7.el6_9
Oracle Linux 6freeradius-krb52.2.6-7.el6_9
Oracle Linux 6freeradius-ldap2.2.6-7.el6_9
Oracle Linux 6freeradius-mysql2.2.6-7.el6_9
Oracle Linux 6freeradius-perl2.2.6-7.el6_9
Oracle Linux 6freeradius-postgresql2.2.6-7.el6_9
Oracle Linux 6freeradius-python2.2.6-7.el6_9
Oracle Linux 6freeradius-unixODBC2.2.6-7.el6_9
Oracle Linux 6freeradius-utils2.2.6-7.el6_9
ubuntu 14.04freeradius2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu8.2
ubuntu 16.04freeradius2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMfreeradius2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1

References

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