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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-10979: Important: freeradius security update (CESA-2017:1759)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-10979: Important: freeradius security update (CESA-2017:1759)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/20/2017
Modified
05/25/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-freeradius
  • centos-upgrade-freeradius-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-freeradius-krb5
  • centos-upgrade-freeradius-ldap
  • centos-upgrade-freeradius-mysql
  • centos-upgrade-freeradius-perl
  • centos-upgrade-freeradius-postgresql
  • centos-upgrade-freeradius-python
  • centos-upgrade-freeradius-unixodbc
  • centos-upgrade-freeradius-utils

References

  • 99901
  • DSA-3930
  • CVE-2017-10979
  • RHSA-2017:1759
  • 1038914
  • USN-3369-1

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